Providing a boost to President Barack Obama's nuclear weapons agenda, an international panel of experts sponsored by Australia and Japan released a report Dec. 15 finding that global stockpiles of nuclear weapons should be reduced 90 percent by 2025 and ultimately eliminated.
"[T]he key recommendation is to get serious about a world without nuclear weapons because there are far more risks associated with the continuation of nuclear weapons than there are these days any benefits," commission co-chair and former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans told Australia's ABC News Dec. 15. "We're realistic about how long that will take. We're setting a target date, 2025, to achieve a …