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Article: My Word: Is this the end of the nuclear weapons era?
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 23, 2008
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AS WE END another year, we may also find ourselves at the
beginning of the end of the nuclear weapons era. We will soon find
out how seriously Barack Obama will pursue his exciting vision for a
world without nuclear weapons. When he does, he will go up against
formidable opposition, possibly including his own secretary of
Defense. Robert Gates has been an ardent advocate for building a new
generation of nuclear weapons.
Fortunately, Obama appears to recognize that nuclear weapons are
relics from a time when Russia dominated U.S. security strategy and
terrorism did not.
This very question of the relevance of nuclear weapons remains on
the minds of hardened veterans of the Cold War. The ...