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President Obama has set out his vision of how he thinks he can embark on a path which will lead to a nuclear-free world. "The existence of thousands of nuclear weapons is the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War ... Today the Cold War has disappeared but thousands of those weapons have not."

We previewed his non-proliferation ideas a couple of months ago -- I blogged about it here.

We also discussed the arguments with the Russian analyst Roland Timerbaev, who's one of the world's leading experts on nuclear non-proliferation, and one of the founding fathers of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and with Ken Adelman, former director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Reagan.

And I asked the British foreign secretary David Miliband what this all might mean for the UK Trident nuclear programme. You can hear the interview here.

(broadcast on The World Tonight, 29 January 2009)

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