President Obama described his new strategy this past Monday April 5, as part of a world wide effort towards making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up their nuclear ambitions. Obama dreams of a world without nuclear weapons, like President Kennedy, but has said that it was unlikely to be achieved in his lifetime, looking to only prevent nuclear terrorism through specific steps that lessen threats. For the first time the U.S. is committed to not use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty even if they attacked the U.S. with biological or chemical weapons, where as White House officials now want the option to reconsider nuclear retaliation. Obama’s goal is to strengthen the NPT and get other countries on the same page about loose nuclear materials, excluding Iran and North Korea hoping that his new policy having been executed will have increasingly isolated them as long as they are operating outside of the NPT. To read in more detail about Obama’s intended new strategy here is a link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html?scp=1&sq=april%206,%202010&st=cs
Submitted by: Jessica Seggman
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