When Obama says he’s ‘reduced the number and role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy’,he’s referring to a drop in the oceanAhead of the 50-country Nuclear Security Summit that met in Washington DC this past week, President Obama publicly touted his administration’s alleged progress towards “a world without nuclear weapons”. In reality, and his administration’s record on reducing nuclear weapons is largely a dismal failure. Early in his presidency,Obama famously gave a speech in Prague in which he described “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons”. Not only has the administration barely made a dent in the gigantic nuclear arsenal the United States has, it has committed more than $1tn over the next several decades to further entrenching the system into permanence, and potentially sparking a unsafe new arms race.
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Source: theguardian.com