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AFP: Obama, Pentagon pull in different directions on no nukes goal

Obama, Pentagon pull in different directions on no nukes goal
2 Feb 09 WASHINGTON (AFP) — President Barack Obama has set a goal of a “world without nuclear weapons” but the Pentagon is leaning in a seemingly contradictory direction: a modernized nuclear arsenal.The new administration has signaled its intent to swiftly engage Russia in negotiations on deeper cuts in their respective arsenals, with the ultimate aim of reducing them to zero.But US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been leading another kind of charge, arguing in the final months of the previous administration that deeper cuts must be underpinned by production of a new warhead to replace an ageing nuclear stockpile.

AFP: Obama, Pentagon pull in different directions on no nukes goal

February 2, 2009 - Posted by | politics, USA

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