[edcoil]

“Obama is also under pressure to abandon the Bush Doctrine allowing preemptive action, including the use of nuclear weapons, against any nation threatening American security”

The pre-emptive action law was voted on by a Republican led congress and signed into law by President Clinton. It is not the Bush doctrine. It was the Clinton doctrine.

[Taylor42]

Maybe this is a good idea. We need to modernize our warheads and there's no way the tree huggers will ever let that happen. However if our deterrence posture is actually compromised then the following administration will find it much easier to build new warheads.

Let's face reality, all of the power players and power player wantabe's are doing it except us.

[BushMeister]

This idea of declaring that the only purpose of America's nuclear arsenal is to DETER a nuclear attack is absurd.

What about the right to RESPOND with nuclear weapons to a nuclear, biological or chemical attack? What about unleashing nuclear weapons in the last defense of America, if we suffered a conventional defeat, leading to a possible invasion?

And if our Primary purpose is to DETER nuclear attack, why would we reduce our nuclear stockpile to such a low level that a nuclear attack upon us would have a much greater chance of succeeding, therefore becoming more plausible?