Two Opposing Views On U.S. Nuclear Weapon Reductions

A Cut Too Far -- Washington Free Beacon

Obama set to seek deeper cuts in nuclear arsenal.

President Obama has decided to seek deeper cuts in deployed strategic nuclear weapons to as few as 1,000 warheads, sharply below the target of 1,550 warheads required under a 2010 U.S.-Russia arms treaty, U.S. officials said Monday.

Critics say the steep cuts, which the administration will seek in new talks with a growing anti-U.S. government in Moscow, would undermine U.S. strategic deterrence for the United States and its allies in Asia and Europe.

The lower warhead levels also would be contrary to recent congressional testimony from a strategic forces commander who said further cuts would weaken the ability to deter nuclear states like Russia and China.

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Update: Disarmament Should Not Be the Driver of U.S. Nuclear Policy -- Baker Spring, Heritage Foundation

My Comment: Media Matters has a different point of view.

As to what is my take .... nuclear reductions are not going to happen .... there is no interest to do so from Russia, and Congress is not on the same page as the White House on this issue.