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April 6, 2010

Obama to Issue New Nuclear Posture Review
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Under a new national strategy for nuclear weapons, the Obama
administration is maintaining the right to use nuclear weapons first and
to use them to attack any nation accused of violating the main treaty to
halt nuclear proliferation, including Iran and North Korea. Anti-nuclear
activists and some Democratic lawmakers were hoping Obama would issue a
blanket statement that the country would never again be the first to use
nuclear weapons. The new policy, known as the Nuclear Posture Review,
narrows potential US nuclear targets, and the New York Times reports
that for the first time the United States is explicitly committing not
to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance
with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. As part of the policy, the US
is not removing any nuclear weapon from alert.



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