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A New Thrust against Nuclear Weapons
In another departure from the policies of George W. Bush, President Obama has put a ban on nuclear weapons back on the agenda for the US and for the United Nations. We hear about today's unanimous resolution by the UN Security Council. Will its provisions be verifiable? Will it make the world safer? Also, Ted Kennedy last wish granted as a temporary senator is named for Massachusetts, and a hoard of gold and silver that goes back to the days of Beowulf in 7th Century England.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenIn another departure from the policies of George W. Bush, President Barack Obama has put a ban on nuclear weapons back on the agenda for the United States and the United Nations. We hear about today's unanimous resolution by the UN Security Council. Will its provisions be verifiable? Will it make the world safer? Also, Ted Kennedy last wish granted as a temporary senator is named for Massachusetts, and an amateur treasure hunter's dream has been realized in England: 1500 pieces of gold and silver that could change modern ideas about the Dark Ages.
Banner image: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (2nd R) speaks as US President Barack Obama (R), US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice (C), and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L) and British Prime Minister Grodon Brown listen during today's Security Council meeting. Photo: Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images
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3 storiesGovernor Names Kennedy Friend, Paul Kirk, as Senator
The last wish of the late Senator Edward Kennedy was that Massachusetts appoint a replacement as soon as he died. The state legislature changed the law accordingly, and today Democratic Governor Deval Patrick appointed Paul Kirk , a long time Kennedy friend and former chair of the Democratic National Committee.
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George W. Bush took a dim view of treaties designed to ban the testing of nuclear bombs and limit proliferation of materials and technology.
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The Anglo-Saxons ruled England from the 5th Century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. Now, with a metal detector, amateur treasure-hunter Terry Herbert has found an enormous hoard of buried gold and silver that one historian says "will make us rethink the Dark Ages."
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