WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- It is remarkable how unremarkable calls for eliminating nuclear weapons altogether have become. As before, they have elicited push-back from those who believe abolition is unrealistic and dangerous. These rejoinders must be taken seriously, but no one has proposed a safer end-state to our nuclear dilemma.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008.

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MARIETTA, Ga., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin has introduced the first of an upgraded C-5A Galaxy transport aircraft to the U.S. Air Force as part of the Avionics Modernization Program.

WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- A bipartisan group has asked U.S. President George Bush to reinstate pre-Sept. 11, 2001 standards for treating prisoners.

LOS ANGELES, April 25 (UPI) -- The failure of Presidents Bush and Putin to move "beyond past strategic principles, which focused on the prospect of mutual annihilation" is unacceptable.

OSLO, Norway, March 4 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn is calling for the United States and other world powers to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and put it into force.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Since the beginning of the Atomic Age, policymakers and scholars have attempted to come up with formulas to constrain the nuclear genie.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007.