In Hiroshima today to pointedly not apologize for the United States launching a nuclear attack on the city in 1945, President Obama went back to one of his favorite talking points, calling for a “world without nuclear weapons.”
Obama has been talking up his pro-disarmament stance for years, even as he pushes for the US to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in modernizing its massive nuclear arsenal. To make matters worse, new figures from the Pentagon show that the reduction of the US nuclear arsenal has slowed dramatically under Obama.
Indeed, the rate of disarmament has been slowing for years throughout Obama’s presidency, with 2015 the smallest figure of dismantled arms throughout both of his terms in office, even as he continued to talk up his “accelerating” of the program to the international community.
The lack of arms reduction reflects that the US has made next to no progress on any international disarmament deals in years.
Officials are trying to defend the lack of progress during Obama’s time in office, blaming hostility with Russia. At the same time, Obama has continued to publicly present the disarmament program as ongoing, which the new figures show it clearly was not.
Obama is a liar! Surprise, surprise, surprise. We are in thrall to psychotics, Obama, Trump, and Clinton. The 1% are hellbent in starting Armageddon. There are those who can’t believe that no one would endanger all life on earth but these maniacs are living proof of it.
The most important thing for control of nuclear weapons is that they not be used. Fewer of them is just a route presumed to prevent use. To illustrate this, if in fact “too few” could promote use of the remainder, then reduction in that way would be a defeat of the real goal. We must keep our eye on the ball.
The larger risk to the real priority therefore is the current trend to make them “more usable” and to talk about them as “options on the table.” (Hillary said that recently.)
Use must never be on the table. They must remain unusable. THAT is the priority, not just reducing the numbers. I don’t say that to defend keeping lots of nuclear weapons, but to refocus attention on the real dangers that are increasing, the talk and design meant to ease the way to use.