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How does reducing the number of nuclear weapons in America’s arsenal make our nation stronger or safer? How does it help to deter potential chemical or biological attacks if we rule out nuclear retaliation in advance? The newly-announced Obama defense strategy is so profoundly illogical that it’s more likely to inspire confusion than indignation.
On the one hand, the administration suggests that the push toward disarmament will inspire better behavior from Iran and North Korea—ignoring the fact that whenever a nation reduces or limits its own power, it only encourages more aggressiveness from its adversaries. The ill-fated disarmament agreements of the...
Does a Weaker America Make the World Safer?
Bear in mind that our level of nukes is geared towards second-strike capability against the now-defunct USSR (even if they destroyed the US and 99% of its nuclear arsenal, we wanted the remaining 1% to be enough to annihilate them).
So long as the US and Russia (far and away the second biggest nuclear power out there) cut our level of nukes in tandem, there is no problem since said reduction doesn't reduce our strength vi a vi the likes of Iran, North Korea and China.
With all the corruption, terrorism and instability in Russia (in a couple places) its safer for America is Russia has fewer nukes (less material for...