By Haider Rizvi, UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17, 2011 (IPS)The United States is likely to maintain and sustain its huge arsenal of nuclear weapons for many years to come, even though President Barack Obama has repeatedly stressed that he stands for nuclear disarmament and global peace, non-proliferation experts believe.
"President Obama is very assertive. But it's not clear how much [more] assertive he chooses to be," said Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a policy think tank based in Washington that monitors U.S. nuclear policy on ethical grounds.
In an analytical report prepared for FAS last week, Kristensen and his colleague, Robert Norris, warned that President Obama might fail to implement his agenda on nuclear disarmament due to lack of cooperation by the civil and military bureaucracy in Washington.
"There is concern over whether Obama's goals can be realised within the enduring bureaucracies that have a stake in the status quo," Kristensen wrote in the FAS report.
Our World would be a lot save without those Nuclear Weapons !But I had doubts Obama would deliver on his promise of a Nuclear Weapon Free World, knowing it is not up to him, not even as president of the US to actually make it happen, while there are others pulling the strings in this theatre !
Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use
U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Holds Fast to Status Quo
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