Posted on 04/05/2010 5:37:13 PM PDT by lbryce
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons, even in self defense.
But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.
Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.
Mr. Obama’s strategy is a sharp shift from those adopted by his predecessors and seeks to revamp the nation’s nuclear posture for a new age in which rogue states and terrorist organizations are greater threats than traditional powers like Russia and China.
It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the Cold War. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a crippling cyberattack.
Those threats, he argued, could be deterred with “a series of graded options” -- a combination of old and newly designed conventional weapons.
“I’m going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the American people are safe and secure,” Mr. Obama said during the interview in the Oval Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Works for me. People have discussed whether Biden would still be in due to the fact that the electors vote for POTUS and VPOTUS separately, but I just read, I don’t know. I would assume all bills, treaties, hires and appointments would be null and void as well.
This Punk Kenyan isn’t qualifed to be a boy scout troop leader....... Destroying America piece by piece........ Somehow I don’t think Putin will have any trouble pulling the nuke trigger!!
There’s a difference between suicidal and homocidal. He’s homocidal.
He may indeed be stupid, but stupidity is not what motivated him to weaken US defenisive capability. It’s treason. He knows what he’s doing, or rather his handlers and string pullers do, and he hates America so he’s fine with it.
Just how many Americans will have to die before this idiot decides to defend the county he took and oath to protect and defend?
I can’t believe that Americans actually elected this guy.
Homosexuals are not allowed to be Boy Scout Leaders, anyway.
Shame and terror on every idiot voter who elected this completely unqualifed man to the office of CIC.
Bump your post and everything you said.
He is an absolute AZZ!
Trea. Son. Idio. Cy.
Will the ‘Left’ ever admit they were wrong about Obama or… will they support him at ALL COST ?
He actually acts like he believes it’s his destiny to destroy the U.S. What an evil man.
Yes ..! He’s a certifiable lunatic.
““Seven Days in May” may be prophetic”
Exactly what I was just talking to the wife about.
And our enemies celebrate
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Many were warned few believed it would be like this. The Most radically left President in the History of the USA. Using his logic on Nukes, he will be able to dismantle our entire Startegic defense system, why do you need a military strike capability when you refuse to strike?
Next up, dismantling of the DOD. The country is entering uncharted waters, pray for our survival.
Hollywierd and the New York Times types have been behind number 3 for a long time they are all in. Please God have mercy on us we don’t want to be punished with Obama anymore.
Wagyu eating surrender monkey!
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