A difficult task

In the left-leaning daily Právo Jiří Hanák welcomes Barack Obama's vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, but doubts that it can be achieved in practice: "I agree that the missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic will be superfluous if Iran puts an end to its nuclear programme. But Iran has already rejected the offer of negotiations. ... The only real, controlled disarmament there has ever been came about under US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev when they eliminated the most dangerous intermediate-range missiles. However at that time the Soviet Union had very little room to move, which is no longer the case with today's Russia. And will China, Pakistan, India, France, the UK and Israel also give up their nuclear arsenals? I have the impression that Obama's election slogan 'Yes we can' will be extremely difficult to put into practice in such a case."

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