It's an intelligent, well researched article and makes a very important point. Yet again, Kerry wants to cancel the one weapon system, which could be used effectively against today's threat:
"One of the most pressing threats posed by our potential adversaries in the international arena today is the proliferation of hard and deeply buried facilities capable of protecting nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; the means of delivering them; and the leaders who would threaten the United States. Our current arsenal, developed in the Cold War, was not designed to address this growing worldwide threat."
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The one thing I would suggest is for the author to reread the article, and make a correction, because in this part, I am sure he meant to be quoting Kerry, but it comes across as a statement in the article.
KERRY SAID: "And part of that leadership is sending the right message to places like North Korea. Right now the president is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research bunker-busting nuclear weapons. The United States is pursuing a new set of nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense. You talk about mixed messages. We're telling other people, "You can't have nuclear weapons," but we're pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using.
Not this president. I'm going to shut that program down, and we're going to make it clear to the world we're serious about containing nuclear proliferation. "
That stood out to me too.
No Kerry, we're saying we may nuke countries that pursue WMD. Different message altogether.