In recent days, the Obama administration has fired a salvo of national-security initiatives: a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), a new National Security Strategy (NSS), and this week’s Nuclear Security Summit![]("http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif")
attended by more than 40 heads of state. What do they add up to? Perhaps the outlines of an Obama Doctrine. And certainly cause for concern.
Start with START. It reduces the strategic nuclear forces of both the U.S. and Russia by about 30 percent. The idea is to set an example and send a message that a nuclear-free world is achievable. That’s a lovely vision, but which do you think is more likely: that rogue regimes will see these reductions as virtuous and emulate them? Or that they will see these reductions as an opportunity and exploit them?
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START also misses this point: The size of America’s nuclear arsenal is of concern to global predators — but it’s reassuring to those who seek protection from them. As for Russia’s strategic nuclear weapons, they were a primary focus of U.S
