WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- With global threats shifting from state to non-state actors, there is no longer a need for the current nuclear arsenal, said former weapons inspector Hans Blix.

UPI Almanac for Monday, March 16, 2009.

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.

LONDON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Justification used by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to support the U.S.-led of invasion of Iraq in 2003 was flawed, Iranian state media said Tuesday.

UPI Almanac for Monday, June 2, 2008.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, March 16, 2008.

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.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Turkey's finance minister says the United States is "after the oil" in Iraq, joining other high-profile officials making the assertion recently.

SYDNEY, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Hans Blix, the former head of the Iraq weapons search, is the latest to say oil may be a factor in the war in Iraq.