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Is President Barack Obama's proposal for zero nuclear weapons realistic? Will it make the world more secure, or more prone to wars since they are no longer unthinkable?To evaluate this bold strategic initiative, we have invited comments from two former US secretaries of state, a former director of the CIA and the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency who led the hunt for Saddam's non‐existent weapons of mass destruction on the eve of the Iraq war.

For too long, U.S. politicians have said that 'foreign oil' is a problem and then gone on to propose ineffective or impossibly expensive solutions. Barack Obama needs to move away from oil as much as possible. Part of a special journal section discussing ten things President Obama should do now so that the next two years of his presidency do not go to waste. Adapted from the source document.

We witnessed three global wars in the past century. Only a decade ago we ended WWIII, also known as the Cold War. But a new enemy has been on the march and we have entered a dangerous but subtler conflict: World War IV. This is not only a war against terrorism but also a war for democracy and for freedom. The enemy we fight includes Islamist Shi'sm, the Ba'athists in Iraq, and the Islamist Sunni terrorist networks. The dangers we face arise from the combination of rogue states, terrorist networks and availability of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Mr. Woolsey says that World War IV, as he calls it, will be fought heavily on the home front and that we must improve the resilience of our infrastructure to assure our capacity to win a long, difficult conflict.