The newest Obama nuclear policy

The Obama nuclear policy has been criticized after President Obama carried out a Nuclear Posture Review and updated the nation's policy on nuclear weapons.

Although the new policy changes little, it nevertheless has some Congressional Republics upset. If the government were to put any fast cash into any more nuclear supplies, it would be for reactors, not for any more nukes.

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 cash advances within the event a nuclear exchange happened

Exceptions to non-aggression

Part of the updated nuclear weapons policy is that President Obama has pledged to never initiate a nuclear attack, except against states that do not participate within 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 essentially – for states not to develop them – and a stick for – any that might. 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 nixed nukes

The President has also made it clear we will not build any NEW nuclear weapons. Many of the hawkish Senate Republicans have balked at the idea, and our arsenal is aging in the nuclear area. But then again, the weapons grade isotope of plutonium, Pu-239, has a half life (the amount of time an element stays in one form, before it decays) of more than 24,000 years, so we’re good for the time being. Granted, Uranium 233 and Uranium 235 have half lives of 160,000 years and 703,800,000 years. However, "new" isn't really defined.

Terrorists will 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 at the moment 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 have to.

And Iran so 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.