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January 27, 2009
Obama and Gates at odds over new nuclear weapons
Topics: Political News and commentariesPresident Barack Obama is at odds with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others in the military over America's need for a new generation of nuclear warheads, with Obama essentially wanting to leave America vulnerable:
[...]Obama's promise to "protect and defend America" apparently means less to him than a campaign promise to the far left. Watch this incredible video on Obama's naive and dangerous policies:While serving as President George W. Bush's defense secretary, Gates repeatedly spoke in favor of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program because the country's weapons, mostly produced in the 1970s and 1980s, are aging and their effectiveness may be in the question, Time magazine reports.
"Even though the days of hair-trigger superpower confrontation are over, as long as other nations possess the bomb and the means to deliver it, the United States must maintain a credible strategic deterrent," Gates wrote in an article for Foreign Affairs, after Obama tapped him to remain as defense secretary.
But Obama said after taking office, as he had during the campaign, that the new administration "will stop the development of new nuclear weapons."
Posted by Hyscience at January 27, 2009 1:44 PM
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