UN chief urges end to 'inertia' in nuclear talks

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged world governments to end the “long inertia” at the Geneva disarmament talks and free up much of the money spent on arms for alleviating hunger, disease and other ills in impoverished nations.

A new coalition of nuclear-activist nations said that moving quickly in Geneva on a treaty to shut down all production of uranium and plutonium for atomic bombs is an “essential step” toward global nuclear disarmament.