WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.
But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.
Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.
Mr. Obama’s strategy is a sharp shift from those of his predecessors and seeks to...
"Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary. "
Yes, obsolete is clearly the wrong word for this.
If he really wanted to "edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete" or edge towards a nuclear weapons free world or "set an example" he should begin by advocating that his OWN country (and I don't mean Kenya or Indonesia) disarms , and refuse to sign any current funding measures.
Asking other "countries to give up any nuclear ambitions" when his own country has them is simple hypocrisy.
Now whether it is wise to disarm is another matter entirely .....
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