Obama's Poor Posture ; the United States Slouches Toward Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament

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President Obama pledged to rid the world of nuclear weapons, and he's starting with the United States. The new U.S. nuclear posture puts the country flat on its back.

Mr. Obama's nuclear strategy is long on ideology and short on common sense. It reflects the mindset of those on the left who came of age during the "nuclear freeze" movement, who see nuclear weapons as an evil to be eliminated, not as a useful deterrent that has contributed to limiting conflict for the last 60 years. The new strategy predictably undermines the deterrent value of these weapons in pursuit of Mr. Obama's fanciful vision of a nuclear-free world.

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Obama's Poor Posture ; the United States Slouches Toward Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament

One of Mr. Obama's gimmicky innovations is to place non-nuclear states off-limits from nuclear strikes. The president asserted instead that the United St...

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