Obama does the right thing on nuclear weapons.

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_05/018151.php

"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. (The military is worried that a nuclear test moratorium in effect since 1992 might endanger the reliability of an aging US arsenal.) But this spring Obama issued a bold call for a world free of nuclear weapons, and part of that vision entails leading by example. That means halting programs that expand the American nuclear stockpile. For the past two budget years the Democratic Congress has refused to fund the Bush-era program. But Obama's budget kills the National Nuclear Security Administration program once and for all.
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The idea behind US agreements with the Soviet Union to stop testing and stop building more nuclear weapons was to let the stockpiles age and become less reliable so that we'd be less likely to blow up the world.

The Bush Administration acted like it was a crisis that our nuclear stockpile was aging, when that was the point of those agreements.

[HamdenRice]

1. Ending an existential threat to all life on the planet seems pretty important to me!

And the political reality is that all the things Obama promised to do, and all the things we want him to do, are rank ordered.

This is certainly at the top of my list!

GoBama!