The Obama administration has unveiled the plan to revamp the United States' approach to nuclear weapons. The Nuclear Posture Review took a year to draft, and in what's being presented as a break from the past, the guidelines pledge that the U.S. will not use, or threaten to use, nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
A year ago, on a visit to Prague, President Obama pledged to work for a world without nuclear weapons, a goal that was cited by the Nobel Committee when it awarded him the Peace Prize a few months later.
This week, two significant steps on nuclear weapons. Today, in Prague again, President Obama met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to sign a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which will cut arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons by almost a third.
And earlier this week, the administration unveiled a new policy, which lays out the circumstances under which the U.S. might use nuclear weapons. It's called the NPR, the Nuclear Posture Review, and in a break with the past these new guidelines declare the U.S. will not use or threaten to use nukes against any country that's in conformity with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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