"Barack Obama has demanded the Pentagon conduct a radical review of US nuclear weapons doctrine to prepare the way for deep cuts in the country's arsenal, the Guardian can reveal.
Obama has rejected the Pentagon's first draft of the "nuclear posture review" as being too timid, and has called for a range of more far-reaching options consistent with his goal of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons altogether, according to European officials.
Those options include:
• Reconfiguring the US nuclear force to allow for an arsenal measured in hundreds rather than thousands of deployed strategic warheads.
• Redrafting nuclear doctrine to narrow the range of conditions under which the US would use nuclear weapons.
• Exploring ways of guaranteeing the future reliability of nuclear weapons without testing or producing a new generation of warheads.
The review is due to be completed by the end of this year, and European officials say the outcome is not yet clear. But one official said: "Obama is now driving this process. He is saying these are the president's weapons, and he wants to look again at the doctrine and their role."
The move comes as Obama prepares to take the rare step of chairing a watershed session of the UN security council on Thursday. It is aimed at winning consensus on a new grand bargain: exchanging more radical disarmament by nuclear powers in return for wider global efforts to prevent further proliferation.
That bargain is at the heart of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which is up for review next year amid signs it is unravelling in the face of Iranian and North Korean nuclear ambitions."
"The president's weapons"? Excuse me you lame-assed clown, those weapons belong to the people of the United States and before you decide to toss them on the scrap heap, and leave us open to attack by a Nuclear Iran or North Korea, America might just have something to say to you in 2012.
Like get the hell out of here.
This one dangerous man. Are you listening America?
This one dangerous man. Are you listening America?
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My God, Mac. How long before we are attacked again because our enemies realize that Whimpy is in control of the Oval Office?
Reply DeleteNow that obama has broadcast our surrender, could we get a copy of said surrender so that we now the terms and to whom we surrenderd?
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