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...challenge is especially difficult when the program generates an almost religious fervor among its advocates, especially given its tie to Ronald Reagan. In 1983, he launched the Strategic Defense Initiative, which ultimately gave birth to the airborne laser, expressing his desire to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." The nuke-laden enemy Reagan was focused on - the Soviet Union - wound up being impotent and obsolete. Nuclear weapons, alas, are still alive and well...
...weapons were failing to meet security requirements to safeguard the weapons. These revelations cemented the unpopularity of the agreement. Belgium's Parliament had already unanimously requested that NATO withdraw the weapons, while a 2006 poll found that almost 70% of people in the four countries want the U.S. nukes withdrawn. In October, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declared that Barack Obama's speech in Prague in April, in which the U.S. President called for countries to renew the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, had "opened the door" to a nuke-free Europe. (See pictures of Obama...
...series of counter-proposals floated through the media, none of which has any appeal to the U.S. and the Europeans. They insist that the Vienna deal is a take-it-or-leave it offer, and are reading Iran's equivocation as a "no". (See a story about Iran's nuke stand-off and Ahmadinejad's woes...
...though he has demonstrated bold vision, there has been too little time for his plans to come to fruition. The tenor of our relations with the Middle East may have changed, but our engagement in two wars there has not. Obama may have expressed sincere desires for a nuke-free world, but these weapons are still very much in existence...
...Instead of fantasies about a nuke-free planet where formerly bloodthirsty humans live together in peace, what the world needs is a safer, more stable nuclear umbrella. That probably means fewer nukes in fewer hands - when Obama talks about strengthening the non-proliferation regime and stepping up efforts to secure loose nukes, he is on the right track. Nuclear weapons are only helpful if they are never used...