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White House Should Target Transparent Nuclear Policy

White House should target transparent nuclear policy, Iran, P5+1 agree to new Nuclear talks in Istanbul, Almaty Taiwan nonproliferation pledge 'not a model,' Japan to restart idled nuclear plants, Trident spending, secret US nuclear weapons stockpile reduced.

Published on February 28, 2013
 

White House Should Target Transparent Nuclear Policy

George Perkovich | Politico

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President Barack Obama is preparing to update the agenda he announced in Prague four years ago to stem nuclear proliferation and reduce the arsenals of nuclear weapons around the world. Proponents and opponents will fixate on the number of nuclear weapons he will propose to cut in the U.S. and Russian arsenals. But any such number will be marginal.

More important are the criteria for using nuclear weapons, especially first use. Here the recent debate over drones can be instructive.   Full Article



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