nuclear weapons sproule or alert the united states didn't ratify the test ban yeah not cool in fact obama won a nobel peace prize his first year in office basically for not being vickery i but also largely because of his speech in prague about a nuclear weapons free world i state clearly and with conviction america's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. powerful stuff now cut to his last year in office although president obama began his administration with a dramatic public commitment to build a nuclear weapons free world that commitment has long ago dwindled and died it has been replaced by an administration plan to build a new generation of u.s. nuclear weapons estimated cost one trillion dollars that is not peace prize material that is death and destruction prize material which should not be rewarded and it doesn't just stop with the u.s. in july twenty seventeen at the u.n. one hundred twenty two nations voted to adopt the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons that's huge but guess which countries didn't sign off on the treaty all of the