Foreign Policy: Electing the Nuclear Pope

Foreign Policy: Electing the Nuclear Pope

NPR 14 May 09by Charles D. Ferguson

………………………..the ElBaradei legacy weighs heavily. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the IAEA in 2005, vindicating the director-general’s belief that he is on a mission to prevent war. Although some countries welcomed ElBaradei’s activist approach — he passionately disputed the Bush administration’s claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, for example — others would surely prefer someone less controversial. That difference of opinion often falls along economic lines, with richer countries pushing for a technocrat and the developing world advocating a peacemaker…………………. Whoever finally gets the nod will have to continue ElBaradei’s work of building the agency up from a traditionally underfunded and understaffed one to an international powerhouse of legitimacy and technical capability.

May 13, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear