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Obama 'demands' more nuclear cuts
As US President Barack Obama prepares to meet his Russian counterpart, the White House asks the Pentagon to launch a radical survey into the country's nuclear weapons for a possible cut in the US arsenal.

The US president has reportedly dismissed the first draft of Pentagon's "nuclear posture review" as being too timid.

Obama has demanded big changes to the US nuclear arsenal, a move that could ultimately accomplish his goal of abolishing nuclear arms totally, European officials say.
Be careful what you wish for, O Europe, lest you get it.
"Obama is now driving this process. He is saying these are the president's weapons,
I don't see how he drew that conclusion, beyond the two year old's classic, "I want it. Mine!".
and he wants to look again at the doctrine and their role," one official said according to The Guardian.

According the report, the goal to redraw the nuclear blueprint for the US nuclear doctrine included: 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.

The report comes as Obama prepares to take the rare step of chairing a watershed session of the UN Security Council on Thursday.

The US president is also set to meet with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, where he is expected to touch on the nuclear arsenals around the globe.
Posted by: Fred 2009-09-22
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