I think it's also a false accomplishment. When the administration promotes this statement of a world without nuclear weapons, again, it's a human-value statement that I think everyone would wish to be true. But in translating it then to a to-do list or a policy from the United States, going from a human-value statement to an actual to-do list and policy without a change that has occurred in the world dynamics, that's where we get dangerous for the United States. Here is the false accomplishment. This President will talk about his accomplishment of limiting the role and the number of U.S. nuclear weapons. I think what people are interested in is this President limiting the nuclear weapons risk that we are facing as a Nation.
Mike Turner: “I think it's also a false accomplishment. When the administration promotes this statement of a world without nuclear…”
On the recordApril 14, 2010
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The speaker critiques the administration's approach to nuclear disarmament and its implications for national security.
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