No Nukes For Obama

On October 2nd, Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, will propose eliminating all the nuclear weapons in the worlds. He believes that the U.S should greatly reduce their number of nukes in their arsenal. At a speech he gave at DePaul University, Obama said that he believed the threat of nuclear terrorism would go down if America also got rid a lot of their weapons. He then went on to say that the reliance on nuclear weapons have become “increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.” According to details which were provided by his campaign, Obama will urge for a diplomatic ban on "production, development , and deployment of intermediate-range missiles." Obama plans on using a combination of both diplomacy and force to prevent Iran and North Korea from developing and harnessing nuclear power and weapons.

This controversy about nuclear weapons is similar, though not as dire, as the Cuban Missile Crisis which took place during the Cold War where the Soviet Union had set up nuclear weapons in one of America's neighboring islands, Cuba. This brought an unimaginable amount of tension and animosity between the two superpowers and eventually led to a negation with the Soviet Union where they would remove their weapons from Cuba if the U.S removes their nukes from surrounding posts around the Soviet Union such as in Turkey and in Italy.




http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/us/politics/02obama.html?bl&ex=1191643200&en=7442df05ec323328&ei=5087%0A