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Obama to Pentagon: Scale Back Nuke Arsenal

President rejects Defense review, plans international deal

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(Newser) – Barack Obama rejected the first draft of a Pentagon report on the US nuclear arsenal and is demanding a radical review ahead of deep cuts, according to the Guardian. The president, whose stated goal is the complete abolition of nuclear weapons, wants to see a range of options: cutting the arsenal from thousands of weapons to hundreds, new international rules to narrow opportunities for deployment, and an end to the testing or production of new warheads.

Obama is taking the uncommon step of chairing a UN Security Council meeting this week, which observers say is aimed at striking a grand bargain on disarmament and non-proliferation. One European official said that the impetus for the deal is coming straight from the Oval Office: "Obama is now driving this process. He is saying these are the president's weapons, and he wants to look again at the doctrine and their role."

President Barack Obama speaks about the US missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, at the White House in Washington.
President Barack Obama speaks about the US missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, at the White House in Washington.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Barack Obama speaks at a rally on health care reform, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, at the Comcast Center at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.
Barack Obama speaks at a rally on health care reform, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, at the Comcast Center at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Stasis
Sep 21, 09 7:17 AM CDT
Good. We don't need enough nuclear weapons to kill everyone in the world 12 times over. Killing everyone once usually does the trick... Reply
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Wills
Sep 21, 09 7:43 AM CDT
Finally a president who has no interest in our nuclear pissing contest with Russia and the rest of the world. Maybe we'll need nukes again some day, but we need to show the world we don't want ANYONE to have to use them ever, and we don't do that by keeping tens of thousands of them lying around. I also like "Obama is now driving this process. He is saying these are the president's weapons, and he wants to look again at the doctrine and their role." damn straight, its his planet destroying arsenal, he can do what he wants :) Reply
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DJM420
Sep 21, 09 8:06 AM CDT
um, the photographer was shooting upward... and 'oversized' nostrils? YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF. YOU ARE NO AMERICAN
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Sep 21, 09 8:23 AM CDT
Please report abuse so newser can track these comments!
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dontlikenobody
Sep 21, 09 8:31 AM CDT
Outside of Rob, I'm still waiting for ANYONE on the right to condemn this racist sack of shit. Still waiting.
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