In the International Herald Tribune and posted on Common Dreams, Hans Blix, former chief UN weapons inspector, reminds us of a second "inconvenient truth": there remain 27,000 nukes in the U.S., Russia and other countries, many on "hair-trigger alert". He writes:
Almost all the talk these days is about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to states like Iran and North Korea, or to terrorists. Foreign ministers meet again and again, concerned that Iran has enriched a few milligrams of uranium to a 4 percent level.
