The brand new Obama nuclear policy

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 over it. 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 loans in the event a nuclear exchange happened

Non-aggression, with exceptions

Part of the new policy for nuclear weapons is that President Obama pledged never to initiate a nuclear attack except against any state that won't participate within the Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty. He also stated that any states who aren't known to have nuclear weapons will be safe as well.

It is equally a carrot – for any states not to develop them – and a stick for – any states that may be considering it. It implies that we might nuke any states that have gone rogue and are developing nuclear weapons. More or less, with a broad room for exceptions, we won't be nuclear aggressors.

New nukes nixed

Obama also made it very clear we could be building no new nuclear weapons. Many of the hawkish Senate Republicans have balked at the idea, and our arsenal is aging within 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. The half lives of the other two weapons grade radioactive isotopes, Uranium 233 and Uranium 235, are 160,000 years and 703,800,000 years, respectively. However, just what constitutes “new” isn’t defined.

Terrorists paying will mean me bomb es su bomb

The Nuclear update Obama made on the policy includes no change to existing doctrine that states harboring or enabling terrorists excludes them from the contract within the case of a nuclear air attack. It also states that if another country at present holding any of these weapons really needs to use them (Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands) might only do so with our permission.

Iran is 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.