Hillary Clinton on Nuclear Treaties

Two years ago, President Obama gave a landmark speech calling for total nuclear disarmament and pledging to work towards it with treaties addressing existing nuclear weapon arsenals, nuclear testing, and the production of materials for new nuclear weapons. 

Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is attending an international "Conference on Disarmament."  This is not an official U.N. meeting, but it is a U.N.-supported group of 65 nations with the intention of negotiating future disarmament treaties.

One of the key items on the agenda:  a proposed "Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty."  Signatories to such a treaty would agree not to produce any of the raw materials for new nuclear weapons.  The country currently stalling the progress of these negotiations is Pakistan.

Check out this transcript of Hillary Clinton's remarks.  Over the rest of the semester, we'll untangle the alphabet soup of nuclear treaties and give you some more background in what all this is about.