A New Arms Race? US Nuclear Test Might Trigger Response from Russia, China
SputnikNews.com
11.07.2015
More than six years after President Barack Obama said he wanted to rid the world of nuclear weapons, the United States continues to work toward upgrading its nuclear capabilities, risking the start of another global nuclear arms race.
In April 2009, a recently inaugurated Obama, speaking in Prague, announced “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”
“And as nuclear power … as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act. We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it.”
On July 1, more than six years after Obama’s speech, the US Air Force and National Nuclear Security Administration successfully tested an unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb as part of a program aimed at upgrading the aging weapon.
Obama’s decision to upgrade the B61-12, rather than cancel the weapon, is the “clearest signal” that his 2009 comments were “hollow words,” Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, a Washington-based anti-war group, said in an email to Sputnik News.
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