change - Barack Obama ready to slash US nuclear arsenal

[spanone]

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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/20/barack-obama-us-nuclear-weapons/print

[tekisui]

1. knr!~

[BuyingThyme]

2. I so hope this is true.

Like that last M&M in the bag I thought was empty.

Love,
Drama Queen

[Parker CA]

3. Excellent news!! It amazes me how many things this man has going on at once. K&R!!

[cliffordu]

4. I wonder how many billions this will save....

[coffeenap]

5. Go Dr. Holdren!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_holdren

[LakeSamish706]

6. As if Repug. heads were'nt exploding before.... Yike, look out for fall out... n/t

[gmoney]

9. we must not allow a mine shaft gap!

[Iterate]

11. Actually, some major Repug. leaders are in agreement, Shulz, Kissenger, et. al.

This idea has been gaining strength for several years now. The time is right and it also happens to be a good political move.

Kissinger, Shultz, Perry & Nunn call for A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
http://www.2020visioncampaign.org/pages/113/Kissinger_Shultz_Perry__Nunn_call_for_A_World_Free_of_Nuclear_Weapons

[BlooInBloo]

7. Heh - the healthcare shitstorm was just a warm-up.

[comrade snarky]

8. That is some change

I can go Woo Hoo about!

[pscot]

10. He's going to overload their tiny little minds

to the point where they start to spontaneously combust.

[4_TN_TITANS]

14. Or at least start shooting.

[Lagomorph]

12. Let's hope the world goes along with it....

I'd love to live on a planet where nations don't have the power to destroy the world XX times over.

[struggle4progress]

13. The rest of the world will certainly feel safer if the nuclear powers begin to disarm, and

of course the US can only conduct meaningful disarmament talks if the negotiators know how much they can really put on the table