Obama's New Nuclear Weapon Policy -- Arms are For Hugging!

President Obama on Monday "revamped" America's nuclear bomb strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.

For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.

Now, if Iran were to launch a biological or chemical weapon attack on the US, killing millions, Obama would almost have to consult the United Nations to see if Iran were in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NNT).

Iran remains a signatory (of the NNT), but the United Nations Security Council has repeatedly found it in violation of its obligations, because it has hidden nuclear plants and refused to answer questions about evidence it was working on a warhead.

Even casting aside the obvious operational difficulties of casting such as conditioned role for using nuclear arms, the long-standing threat of our using them is greatly diminished, too.

President Reagan was anti-nukes, and worked to reduce their numbers; but, Reagan believed in peace through strength, that a solid nuclear presence and the believable threat to use them would keep enemies at bay.

Obama seems to be taking the opposite tack, peace through weakness. In his first year he promised to close all bases where terror suspects are kept, revealed interrogation techniques, told terrorists around the world we would not use "enhanced interrogation" techniques and anybody in the military or CIA who does will be prosecuted, giving civilian trials to terrorists, shows no interest in interrogating high-profile terror suspects, and now tells the enemies of the US that they have nothing to fear of our nuclear arsenal.

Does anyone feel safer now?

“I’m going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the American people are safe and secure,” he said in the interview in the Oval Office.

Except, of course, nuclear missiles.