From The Danger Room:
In a speech yesterday in Prague, President Barack Obama announced a new push for nuclear disarmament, outlining the first concrete steps toward the goal of a "world without nuclear weapons." Here's how he made the case for abolition:
Today, the Cold War has disappeared but thousands of those weapons have not. In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up. More nations have acquired these weapons. Testing has continued. Black markets trade in nuclear secrets and materials. The technology to build a bomb has spread. Terrorists are determined to buy, build or steal one. Our efforts to contain these dangers are centered in a global non-proliferation regime, but as more people and nations break the rules, we could reach the point when the center cannot hold.
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My Comment: President Obama is no where near many of President Reagan's positions .... nuclear proliferation being one of them. But the desire to no longer have a nuclear arsenal is a noble one .... and it is shared by everyone.