This is why the original trilateral partners joined the U.S. in promoting it a generation ago, and why the world's rising powers will rally to the cause today.
In fact he still has nightmares about it today and hopes the world's super powers never press the button, to avoid him having to try and say it again!
It has taken pressure from the world's main powers to get the two sides' political leaders to shake hands on the road map and to arm-twist the militants to set aside their guns and bombs.
This one involves the world's great powers and will likely shape the international environment for the foreseeable future.
After the world's economic powers meet at several summits in the coming weeks, they're more likely to issue a broad set of principles about risk management, oversight and consumer protection than to make sweeping regulatory suggestions.
The G-20 gathering of the world's major powers in Washington on Nov. 15 was only the beginning of a long and constructive process of revising the global system.
But the underperformance of so many of the world's soccer powers--pre-tournament co-favorites Argentina and Italy, defending champion France and dark-horse favorite Portugal were all eliminated in the first round--diminished the tournament as a showcase of the world's top footballing talent.
The Prague speech's promise of a world without nuclear weapons was predicated on the idea that the world's two most important nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, would move to a more constructive relationship.
Japan Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said that without the participation of the world's two largest military powers, the United States and China, the treaty would be toothless.
The world's major economic powers have come a step nearer patching up differences on environmental policy which prompted the humiliating collapse of key talks in November.
The world's dominant economic powers should give it a firm push forward.
For example, none of the world's other nuclear powers - not one - has promised to follow his lead in disarming their nations.
The announcements by China and the United States follow the world's top economic powers acknowledging earlier this month that there was no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by year's end.
Still, Iranian officials at IAEA headquarters in Vienna have said this week that they continue to want to have new talks with the U.S. and other world powers on the nuclear issue.
There was a time when a meeting between the American and Russian leaders was a summit of the world's two great, rival powers.
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But when its president trashes his own stock in order to inflict greater pain on the dot.coms, we see evidence that even the world's most powerful Goliaths tremble before the Net's disruptive powers.
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The tide of anti-colonialism after the second world war was forcing Europe's imperial powers to grant independence almost everywhere.
The U.S. and five other world powers offered Iran a package of incentives if it would freeze uranium enrichment by last Saturday.
With plutonium no longer needed for use in the world's abandoned fast breeder reactor programmes and nuclear powers getting rid of their atomic weapons, large stockpiles of the highly toxic plutonium metal are starting to build up.
The Supreme Court's decision in the case could be one of the most important on presidential war powers since World War II, or it could be a fizzle.
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Britain is the world's fourth-largest economy and one of its strongest military powers.
From De Gaulle to Chirac, French presidents, enjoying powers that far exceed those of most of the world's 20 or so real monarchs, have rapidly assumed custodianship of la gloire.
And after the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Roosevelt changed America's diplomatic posture from competitor with the other imperialist powers in dominating the world to mediator in their growing conflicts.
Like Chuck, I would rather have the world powers behind a united effort to stop and reverse the nuclear ambitions of Iran's leadership.
As nuclear powers, we can be full partners in preventing the spread of the world's most deadly weapons, securing loose nuclear materials from terrorists, and pursuing our shared vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
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