Is Biden Going to Keep Wasting America’s Money on New Nukes?
SlateThere are two stand-out passages in the 25-page “Nuclear Posture Review” that the Biden administration released on Thursday. While expressing “great concern” over its advances in uranium-enrichment, the report states: “Iran does not today possess a nuclear weapon, and we currently believe it is not pursuing one.” This may signal to Tehran that Biden does not consider a revival of the Iran nuclear deal to be an utterly lost cause The second is a brutal warning to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un: Any nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its Allies and partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of that regime. In the final days of his tenure as Barack Obama’s vice president, Biden said in a speech, fully approved by Obama, that deterring a nuclear attack should be the “sole purpose” of U.S. nuclear weapons. So, although Obama thought that no U.S. president should actually would use nuclear weapons first, he saw the value in reserving the right to do so—if just to deter a wide range of enemy attacks. As a compromise, Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review said that deterring a nuclear attack was the “fundamental” purpose of nuclear weapons—and added that the U.S. would never use nuclear weapons first against a country that possesses no nukes and had signed—and was in compliance with—the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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