As North Korea prepares to reopen its plutonium plant, expelling inspectors from the UN and US in the process, it seems a strange time for the American president to dwell on his dream of a nuclear free-world – and still less for a chorus line of Cold War warriors, including myself, Henry Kissinger, Douglas Hurd and a host of former military men, to line up behind him.
Rest assured, you will not find us foreign-policy hawks suddenly sporting CND badges: the arguments against Britain unilaterally giving up its nuclear weapons are as powerful and persuasive as they have always been. But the need for a global, multilateral strategy that would lead to all states with nuclear weapons reducing – and if possible eliminating – their arsenals, now has unprecedented force and logic behind it.
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