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The Need for New Nuclear Weapons

The president's announcement that he will not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear nations is unlikely to do us any harm. But Stephen L. Carter says there is real danger in Obama's decision.

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In all the hoopla over President Obama’s announcement that the U.S. will largely foreswear the use of nuclear weapons except in response to nuclear attack, an important element of his plan has not received the attention it should: the promise that America “will not develop new nuclear warheads or pursue...

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