# IAEA, ElBaradei wins Nobel peace prize
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iaea-elbaradei-wins-nobel-peace-prize/325197
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [October 7, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iaea-elbaradei-wins-nobel-peace-prize/325197 "2005-10-07T15:05:21Z")
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### Author:  [@Ghoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghoul)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iaea-elbaradei-wins-nobel-peace-prize/325197/1 "2005-10-07T15:05:21Z")
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> “The award sends a very strong message: ‘Keep doing what you are doing – be impartial, act with integrity’, and that is what we intend to do,” ElBaradei told a news conference in Vienna.
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> "The advantage of having this recognition today, it will **strengthen my resolve**.
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> "The fact that there is overwhelming public support for our work definitely will help to resolve some of the major outstanding issues we are facing today, **including North Korea, including Iran and nuclear disarmament**.
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> “It is a responsibility but it is also a shot in the arm,” he added.
[Reuters article](http://olympics.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-07T120148Z_01_FLE732983_RTRUKOC_0_US-NOBEL-PEACE-ELBARADEI.xml)
thoughts?
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### Author:  [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iaea-elbaradei-wins-nobel-peace-prize/325197/2 "2005-10-07T15:44:17Z")
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> The 63-year-old Egyptian lawyer and the International Atomic Energy Agency won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to prevent both the spread of nuclear weapons, to new states and to terrorists, and to ensure safe civilian use of nuclear energy.
So, he won the prize for trying to do his job? ISTM that Bush and co. had more of an effect and was more zealous in doing that job. Not that I think Bush should win a peace prize. Than again, I do realize that the nuclear proliferation issue has been more of an issue than anytime during my lifetime. Maybe he has to do “hard work” compared to his predecessors.
It is funny though that in my job revue you have five levels in grading your performance. Any thing less that the best grade, exemplary, and it ends up being a bad mark on your record. You would think that the international community would be even more stringent in the revue of the world’s nuclear watchdog than a credit cared company is to it’s employees.
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iaea-elbaradei-wins-nobel-peace-prize/325197/3 "2005-10-07T16:09:51Z")
Him winning meant that the muppet known as Bono didn’t so I’m happy.