WASHINGTON -April 8, 2009 - Vice President Joseph Biden has been put in charge of the administration's nuclear nonproliferation agenda, including President Obama's goal of securing vulnerable nuclear material around the world over the next four years, and efforts to persuade Congress to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which would ban new nuclear explosions.
"As a measure of the president's continuing commitment to this vital nonproliferation agenda, he has asked for Vice President Joe Biden's help to lead the administration's nonproliferation efforts," James Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, told a packed luncheon of diplomats and nonproliferation specialists Monday at a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington-based think tank. More >>>
