{"id":44,"date":"2009-09-21T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-09-21T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T09:45:00","slug":"obamas-nuclear-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/obamas-nuclear-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Nuclear Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been curious about&#160; how President Obama plans to deal with our huge nuclear weapons stockpile along with the threat of nuclear proliferation elsewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/ObamasNuclearPlans_2223\/nuclearweapons.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"nuclear-weapons\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"176\" alt=\"nuclear-weapons\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/ObamasNuclearPlans_2223\/nuclearweapons_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> President Obama&#8217;s decision to order a review comes as he takes the rare step of chairing a watershed session of the UN security council.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">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&#8217;s arsenal, the Guardian can reveal.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Obama has rejected the Pentagon&#8217;s first draft of the &quot;nuclear posture review&quot; as being too timid, and has called for a range of more far-reaching options consistent with his goal of <strong>eventually abolishing nuclear weapons altogether<\/strong>, according to European officials.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Those options include:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Reconfiguring the US nuclear force to allow for an arsenal measured in hundreds rather than thousands of deployed strategic warheads.<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Redrafting nuclear doctrine to narrow the range of conditions under which the US would use nuclear weapons.<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Exploring ways of guaranteeing the future reliability of nuclear weapons without testing or producing a new generation of warheads.<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">The review is due to be completed by the end of this year, and European officials say the outcome is not yet clear. But one official said: &quot;Obama is now driving this process. He is saying these are the president&#8217;s weapons, and he wants to look again at the doctrine and their role.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">The move comes as Obama prepares to take the rare step of chairing a watershed session of the UN security council on Thursday. It is aimed at winning consensus on a new grand bargain:<strong> exchanging more radical disarmament by nuclear powers in return for wider global efforts to prevent further proliferation<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/sep\/20\/barack-obama-us-nuclear-weapons\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>What can I say?&#160; This policy is just the change we need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been curious about&#160; how President Obama plans to deal with our huge nuclear weapons stockpile along with the threat of nuclear proliferation elsewhere. President Obama&#8217;s decision to order a review comes as he takes the rare step of chairing a watershed session of the UN security council. Barack Obama has demanded the Pentagon conduct <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/obamas-nuclear-plans\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}