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Obama Unveils New Nuke Policy

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Posted on Apr 6, 2010
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President Barack Obama made the auspicious step of releasing his new Nuclear Posture Review on Tuesday, two days before he was due to co-sign an arms reduction treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague. So what, you may wonder, is the Nuclear Posture Review? The BBC has some details.

BBC:

The Nuclear Posture Review, published on Tuesday, outlines plans for “achieving substantial further nuclear force reductions” beyond the new treaty.

Every president since 1991 conducts such a review - the last one took place in 2001 at the start of George W Bush’s administration.

But Mr Obama set high expectations when he declared America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons in Prague last year.

For the first time, the US is ruling out a nuclear response to attacks on America involving biological, chemical or conventional weapons.

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By Commune115, April 6, 2010 at 7:51 pm Link to this comment

The way Obama is basically threatening Iran with destruction eventhough it has no nukes is pretty psychotic. Anyone who still sings praises to this man is sick in the head.

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By ofersince72, April 6, 2010 at 4:09 pm Link to this comment

Decipher this for you

It is an appearance for the Russains and the U.S.

What they are really doing,  is getting rid of out dated
and useless nucks and found a way to get polical points
doing so.

All the while building the new generation of nuclear
warheads that Obama already has ordered and paid for
with our money.
Obama is crafty, with a shrewd smile and a silver tongue.

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By NZDoug, April 6, 2010 at 4:08 pm Link to this comment

and Israel neither confirms or denies, so its SOS, same old s***.........

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By Claus Eric Hamle, April 6, 2010 at 4:04 pm Link to this comment
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The Problem is that the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. On the new missiles on ships in the Black Sea in Bulgaria and on land in Romania and Poland by 2015 former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org-commented, “Whether on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike”.

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By rico, suave, April 6, 2010 at 2:50 pm Link to this comment

Samson:

I agree! I’m a right wing wacko, but this time I party company with Rush and Sean. They’re panties are all twisted by the thought that we’re laying down our big guns.

The way I see it, the policy only applies to signatories of the NPT who actually have nukes. Iran is neither. So if Iran attacks us with pea shooters, we can, even under the new dispensation, turn their fucking country to glass.

I think this is a direct, overt, explicit message to Iran: Don’t even think about the next step. The sublety is brilliant.

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By Samson, April 6, 2010 at 2:41 pm Link to this comment

If Bush was still President, and if he released exactly the same document, the headline on the Democrat-leaning sites would have been.

“Bush leaves option of nuclear attack on Iran open.”

That’s the policy still.  But since its Obama, we’ll be told how wonderful it is that the US still keeps nuclear weapons and still threatens to use them whenever it chooses to do so.

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