President Obama conducted a Nuclear Posture Review which changes the nation's policy on nuclear weapons, which has generated criticism of the Obama nuclear policy .
Even though the change is relatively small, some Congressional Republicans are upset about this. If the government were to put any fast cash into any more nuclear supplies, it would be for reactors, not for any more nukes.
Might be stark raving MAD
According to the article in TIME, the updated Obama nuclear weapons policy changes nothing regarding the default status between Russia and the U.S. Since the dawn of the Cold War, what kept a nuclear exchange from taking place between the two largest nuclear powers was something called “Mutually Assured Destruction,” wherein the nuclear deterrence held by either country would be deployed in the event of the other attacking with theirs.
This basically means that neither side will benefit from a nuclear attack because both sides would be damages beyond the extent of recovery from payday loans in the event a nuclear exchange happened
Non-aggression which includes a few exceptions
Pare of the new nuclear weapons policy is that President Obama plans not to initiate an attack on any state other than those who won't participate in the Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty. He also pledges he will never use nuclear weapons against states that aren’t known to be developing nuclear weapons.
It is equally a carrot – for any states not to develop them – and a stick for – any states that could be considering it. It states that we might nuke any states that are developing nuclear weapons. More or less, it says we won’t be nuclear aggressors, but with broad room for exceptions.
New nukes nixed
The President has also made it clear we will not build any NEW nuclear weapons. The hawkish among Senate Republicans have balked at this idea, and our nuclear arsenal is aging. We seem ok right now considering the weapons grade isotope of Plutonium, Pu-239 has a half life of 24,000 years (the volume of time an element will stay in its initial form before decaying. Respectively the other two half lives of Uranium 233 and Uranium 235 are 160,000 years and 703,800,000 years. However, "new" isn't really defined.
Terrorists are going to pay, and me bomb es su bomb
The Obama nuclear update on our policy also includes no change to existing doctrine that states harboring or enabling terrorists will not be spared the nuclear rod in the event of an attack. Also, any other country presently host to any of our stockpiled weapons (such as Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium) can make use of a weapon only with our approval if they really need to.
Iran seems far away
From an article from Reuters (See: reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6362IJ20100407), Iranian President Ahmadinejad is apparently none too pleased. He said that Obama is “inexperienced and an amateur politician.” He further added that “American politicians are like cowboys. Whenever they have legal shortcomings their hands go to their guns.” The revised Obama nuclear policy, in reality, changes little.
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