| ID | 147101 |
| Title Proper | Rethinking nuclear policy |
| Other Title Information | taking stock of the stockpile |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kaplan, Fred |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Four months into his presidency, at a summit in Prague, Barack Obama pledged to take [2] “concrete steps toward a world without nuclear weapons.” Yet nearly eight years later, he presides over a program to modernize the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal at a cost of $35 billion a year through the next decade and beyond. To those who accuse him of hypocrisy [3], Obama has said that he always regarded a nuclear-free world as a long-term goal, unlikely to be met in his lifetime, much less his time in office—and that his modernization program is designed not to build more or more deadly nuclear weapons but rather to maintain and secure the arsenal the United States has now. |
| `In' analytical Note | Foreign Affairs Vol. 95, No.5; Sep-Oct 2016: p.18-25 |
| Journal Source | Foreign Affairs Vol: 95 No 5 |
| Key Words | Nuclear policy ; U.S. Nuclear Arsenal ; Rethinking Nuclear Policy ; SLBM |