The newest Obama nuclear policy

The Obama nuclear policy is being criticized after President Obama conducted a Nuclear Posture Review and updated the nation's policy on nuclear weapons.

Even though the change is relatively small, some Congressional Republicans are upset about this. Reactors would be bought instead of nukes if the government were to use fast cash to buy them.

He may be stark raving MAD

According to the article in TIME, the updated Obama nuclear weapons policy changes nothing regarding the default status between Russia and the U.S. Since the dawn of the Cold War, what kept a nuclear exchange from taking place between the two largest nuclear powers was something called “Mutually Assured Destruction,” wherein the nuclear deterrence held by either country would be deployed in the event of the other attacking with theirs.

Essentially, this means that neither side will reap the benefits of a nuclear attack because both would be damaged far beyond the extent a few payday advances can cover within the event that a nuclear exchange would take place

Exceptions to non-aggression

Part of the new policy for nuclear weapons is that President Obama pledged never to initiate a nuclear attack except against any state that won't participate within the Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty. He also stated that any states who aren't known to have nuclear weapons could be safe as well.

Essentially, it’s equally a carrot — for states to not develop them — and a stick for — those that would. It states that we may nuke any states that are developing nuclear weapons. More or less, with a broad room for exceptions, we won't be nuclear aggressors.

Nukes nixed new

Obama also made it very clear we will be building no new nuclear weapons. Many of the hawkish Senate Republicans have balked at the idea, and our arsenal is aging within the nuclear area. But then again, the weapons grade isotope of plutonium, Pu-239, has a half life (the amount of time an element stays in one form, before it decays) of more than 24,000 years, so we’re good for the time being. The half lives of the other two weapons grade radioactive isotopes, Uranium 233 and Uranium 235, are 160,000 years and 703,800,000 years, respectively. However, "new" isn't really defined.

Me bomb es su bomb for the Terrorists that will pay

Obama's nuclear update also implies the original doctrine of taking exceptions to states harboring and enabling terrorists could be excluded from the treaty nevertheless stands. Also, any country that is at the moment host to any of our stockpiled weapons (such as Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy) can make use of such weapons with our approval in case they seriously need to.

And Iran so far away

From an article from Reuters (See: reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6362IJ20100407), Iranian President Ahmadinejad is apparently none too pleased. He said that Obama is “inexperienced and an amateur politician.” He further added that “American politicians are like cowboys. Whenever they have legal shortcomings their hands go to their guns.” The revised Obama nuclear policy, in reality, changes little.