Push for no-first-use nuclear weapons policy

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Updated October 23, 2009 20:54:05

An emotionally-powerful setting has formed the backdrop to this week's meeting of an international panel charged with helping drive nuclear disarmament. The International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament has been meeting in Hiroshima, the city hit by the world's first atomic bombing in World War Two. The commission has signed off on a weighty report due for publication early next year, agreeing that a key goal should be getting the existing eight nuclear-armed states to agree to a no-first-use policy.

Presenter: Linda Mottram, Canberra correspondent
Speaker: Gareth Evans, co-chair, International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament

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