Nuclear weapons CAN be abolished

I thoroughly agree with your sensible comments, Bob - and especially those about nuclear weapons.  
 
This is what Dr Tilman Ruff (President of Australia's Medical Association for the Prevention of War, MAPW) said about the EMINENT FEASIBILITY of ABIOLISHING NUCLEAR WEAPONS (ABC Radio National, 5 August 2007, Ockham's Razor nationwide science talk - see homepage link for URL  
 
QUOTE: "Abolition has been seriously discussed at the highest political levels. It was called for in the very first resolution of the UN General Assembly in January, 1946. Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev agreed in 1985 that 'a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought', and agreed on the need to eliminate nuclear weapons. The sticking point then was Reagan refusing to rule out nuclear tests in space as part of missile defence. 
 
A large body of authoritative reports from the 1996 Canberra Commission, to the 2006 Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, describe how, through a series of binding, timebound, irreversible steps, nuclear weapons can be abolished. There are no insurmountable technical or legal obstacles. What is lacking is visionary leadership and the groundswell of irresistible pressure from mobilised citizens to make it happen."END QUOTE

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2007/1995827.htm