Expert Groups Largely Back Obama's Nuclear Stance

From The Washington Post:

Two bipartisan panels of nuclear weapons experts are endorsing much of President Obama's ambitious arms-control effort in advance of next week's nonproliferation talks here between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A congressionally mandated commission will recommend next week that the United States resume the lead in international efforts to prevent further proliferation of nuclear weapons. The U.S. government should declare that it will rely less on such weapons and seek to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles through extension of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (START), according to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. But, the commission said, it also should maintain "an appropriately effective nuclear deterrent force."

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My Comment: These talks are going to last a long time, but in the interim U.S. strategic forces need to upgrade .... I guess years of neglect are finally catching up. This dilemma is going to give headaches to everyone in the U.S. nuclear establishment until a more definite understanding of where we are going is established.