Obama limits US nuclear arms use
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April 7, 2010, Wednesday
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THE Obama administration unveiled a new policy yesterday restricting United States use of nuclear weapons but making a pointed exception of nuclear-defiant Iran and North Korea.
President Barack Obama's aides rolled out a strategy review that renounced US development of new atomic weapons and could herald further cuts in America's stockpile.
The announcement, calling for reduced US reliance on its nuclear deterrent, could build momentum before Obama signs a landmark arms control treaty with Russia in Prague tomorrow and hosts a nuclear security summit in Washington next week.
But Obama's revamped strategy is likely to draw criticism from conservatives who say his approach compromises US security and disappoint liberals who want further arms control.
Under the revamp, the US for the first time foreswears atomic weapons against non-nuclear countries, a break with a Bush-era threat of nuclear retaliation if the US is biologically or chemically attacked.
President Barack Obama's aides rolled out a strategy review that renounced US development of new atomic weapons and could herald further cuts in America's stockpile.
The announcement, calling for reduced US reliance on its nuclear deterrent, could build momentum before Obama signs a landmark arms control treaty with Russia in Prague tomorrow and hosts a nuclear security summit in Washington next week.
But Obama's revamped strategy is likely to draw criticism from conservatives who say his approach compromises US security and disappoint liberals who want further arms control.
Under the revamp, the US for the first time foreswears atomic weapons against non-nuclear countries, a break with a Bush-era threat of nuclear retaliation if the US is biologically or chemically attacked.
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