"It has always been hoped that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki stand as constant reminders of why preventing the further use and proliferation of such weapons – and why nuclear disarmament leading to a nuclear weapon-free world – is of utmost importance for the survival of humankind and planet Earth…Let us renew today ... the promise to the peoples of the world to spare no effort to work collectively to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons.”

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Remarks made in Vienna in commemoration of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
5 August 200