Nuclear-free deeds most urgent

More concrete action instead of verbal commitments are needed from the United States in order to make the world a community of nations free of nuclear weapons, as US President Barack Obama mapped out in an address delivered in Prague, the Czech Republic, in April.

The blueprint, the first such plan that has been drafted by a US president since the production of nuclear arms and symbolizing a major change in Washington's long-established nuclear posture, has produced positive effects on the world's "non-nuclear weapons" process over the past months. Obama's proposal has received popular support from the rest of the world, including China, a country that advocated as early as 1964, a year when it tested its first nuclear bomb, that the world's nuclear weapons should be destroyed fully and completely.

To achieve the target, Obama mapped out three specific and interlinked goals for the world: Nuclear disarmament, nuclear nonproliferation and the pursuit of nuclear security. That showed the US has changed its unevenly balanced nuclear policy. In the past, Washington has attached more importance to non-proliferation and nuclear security efforts while ignoring nuclear disarmament. Should the US really turn to such a balanced and coordinated nuclear posture, it would play a positive role in propelling the world to carry forward its long-anticipated process to make the whole globe free of nuclear weapons. Also, it would help display to the entire world the trustworthiness of Washington's latest nuclear advocacy.