From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

A new thrust against nuclear weapons.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

George W. Bush took a dim view of treaties designed to ban the testing of nuclear bombs

and limit proliferation of materials and technology.

Today, Barack Obama persuaded the UN Security Council to affirm steps toward what he calls

a world without nuclear weapons.

Critics say he is overselling provisions that can't be verified

and which won't make the world any safer from rogue states or international terror.

What will it mean for Iran and North Korea? Will it help persuade the U.S. Senate to ratify

the test-band treaty it rejected in 1999? On reporters' notebook later on, a huge hoard of ancient treasure discovered in England.

First, here's the news.

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D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation.

Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Poet. In another departure from the policies of George

W. Bush, President Obama has put a ban on nuclear weapons back on the agenda for the U.S. and for the

United Nations. We heard about today's unanimous resolution by the UN Security Council. Will its

provisions be verifiable? Will it make

the world safer? On reporter's notebook, an amateur treasure hunter's dream has been realized in

England more than 1,500 pieces of gold and silver that could change modern ideas about the dark

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