Obama’s new budget plan includes a little-noted sea change in U.S. nuclear policy, and a step towards his vision of a denuclearized world. It provides no funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, created to design a new generation of long-lasting nuclear weapons that don’t need to be tested.
Last October, (SecDef not Bill) Gates warned that
“[t]o be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program.”
This sounds like a good idea, right? A similar idea would be for all the homes and businesses in the American neighborhoods where President Obama received 100% of the vote to show the way to ending crime in our country by taking the bars off their windows, the locks off their cars, and the cops off their streets. That should solve the crime problems once and for all, eh?
