Obama Expands Modernization of Nuclear Arsenal (Flashback May 2010)

NY Times ^ | May 13, 2010 | PETER BAKER

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON — President Obama promised Thursday to spend $80 billion over 10 years to maintain and modernize the nation’s nuclear arsenal, a commitment that could help win Republican support for his new arms control treaty with Russia.

The plan expands a previous proposal by Mr. Obama to upgrade nuclear infrastructure and was sent to the Senate along with the treaty and accompanying protocol and annexes. Mr. Obama called President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia as he kicked off his campaign to win Senate consent for the treaty.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin hearings next week, starting Tuesday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The White House wants the treaty approved by summer, but it remains uncertain whether ratification could happen that soon.

“I’d like to see it happen before the election,” Mr. Obama told Russian state television last week. “Our hope is that they will be able to review it quickly and recognize that this is an important step in the efforts of both the United States and Russia to meet our obligations under the Nonproliferation Treaty to lower our stockpiles.”

[Nachum]

Promising to spend 80 billion to modernize our arsenal, before trying to unilaterally disarm us -this week.

[Nachum]

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[LucianOfSamasota]

This is Obama’s SECOND warheads reduction!!!!

Obama has already reduced deployed warheads by 70% with the New START Treaty. New START was signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague and entered into force on 5 February 2011.

So this new reduction is 80% of the remaining 30%. Reagan taught ‘Peace through strength’; Progressives/Obama practice ‘Peace through capitulation’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_START

[optiguy]

Kinda like all the other promises of future commitments Democrats make as a condition to get what they want now. FUBO.

[Trod Upon]

I’d be OK with it if they were replaced by neutron devices.

[JimRed]

Question we’ll never hear at a news conference:

“Mr. President, in 2010 you promised to modernize our nuclear arsenal. Now you have stated that you want to cut it by 80%. Were you lying then, or are you lying now?”