Chain Reaction

Chain reaction

Barack Obama has dragged countries out of daze and blinking before the Klieg lights: First with an arms treaty with Russia, then to recast America’s own policy and now, for a summit in Washington, DC. Since Ronald Reagan, Obama has stirred up the subject more than anyone else. Obama’s critics however condemn the summit as a simple restatement of policies that are largely unenforceable. Most of the treaties already in place like START and NPT missed the main point: the threat of proliferation from hostile, unbiddable states like Iran. However such critics failed to take into account that Obama’s policies have led to significant advances in getting rid of the nuclear threat. Countries have gotten rid of their stock of uranium and plutonium; others are lowering the risk of proliferation from reactors.

With Obama’s success in passing the health-care reform, Obama’s domestic policy has seen some progress. Now by turning to the foreign state of things, Obama has launched an ambitious program trying to defend the world from state like Iran who are now nuclear threats to the planet. Since the Cold War and the brink of nuclear war, the matter has kind of being left alone. However Obama’s goal is to initiate a chain reaction where country after country agrees to setting boundaries and limitation to anything concerning nuclear tools for war. The fight against proliferation need for many other countries to sign up to tougher inspections and punishment against anyone that pulls out of the NPT to go nuclear, as North Korea did.

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