This is concrete policy to a sensible nuclear policy. It puts reality into the futility of the use of nuclear weapons. For those who believe America should have some inalienable right to have nuclear weapons without restriction for the mere fact that we are the moral Americans, inasmuch as we continue our justifiable attempt to have non-nuclear countries stay that way, we are the only country in the world that have used nuclear weapons against other humans.
Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms
By DAVID E. SANGER and PETER BAKER
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.
President Obama on Monday discussing his new nuclear strategy, which would limit the conditions for using such 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 revamp the nation’s nuclear posture for a new age in which rogue states and terrorist organizations are greater threats than traditional powers like Russia and China. CONTINUED
Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms – NYTimes.com
