Sydney Peace Prize for blunt Blix

HANS BLIX spends his life telling the world about the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction. Efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament have stagnated and the public is distracted, he warns in last year's report of the Stockholm-based WMD Commission, which he chairs.

Could any global issue be more serious? Yes, says the retired Swedish diplomat. He sees its effects when he takes a rare rest on the 10 hectares he inherited from his father on a Baltic Sea island.

"Many kinds of birds are no longer there. There are algae blooms, the water temperature is going up," says Dr Blix, 79, who has visited the island every summer since 1939.

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