Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Different

[Crabtownboy]

Interesting article. I did not know that Belgium, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands remain de facto nuclear powers ... did you know that? Read the entire article, please.

It is 72 pages long and filled with arcane deterrence language, but there's arguably no more important document in the world right now than the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that President Obama released on Tuesday. After all, the text spells out how many nuclear weapons the U.S. will continue to deploy around the world and the conditions under which it would be prepared to use those weapons — no small thing considering that its arsenal is big enough to threaten the survival of the species. Here are five ways in which Obama has shifted — or not shifted — U.S. nuclear policy from the George W. Bush years.



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