World's nuclear powers decried as hypocrites
UN agency chief says reliance cripples push to halt proliferation
by Bryan Bender, Boston Globe Staff  |  June 22, 2004

The world's nuclear powers have failed to reduce their reliance on atomic weapons, creating a double standard that plagues international efforts to reduce their spread, the United Nations top nuclear watchdog said yesterday.The time is long overdue to "abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue nuclear weapons but morally acceptable for others to rely on them," ElBaradei said in a speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

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