Obama plans dramatic cuts in nuclear stockpile

By Alex Spillius in Washington Published: 7:17PM GMT 01 March 2010

Barack Obama done non-proliferation a priority early in his presidency Photo: GETTY

Officials pronounced hundreds of chief weapons could be cut, in most cases by timid weapons that are right away kept in storage, from the stream turn of 2,200 warheads.

A comparison administration department department central pronounced the new plan would point to a larger purpose for required weapons, whilst "maintaining a clever and reliable" chief deterrent.

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On Monday the boss met Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary, to plead the "Nuclear Posture Review" that was ostensible to be published in Dec but was behind reportedly given Mr Obama did not cruise it in advance enough.

The process examination "will be an critical step brazen in posterior the idea of reversing the widespread of chief weapons and looking a universe but them," pronounced the official. He pronounced it could additionally order out the need to rise the chief version of "bunker-buster" weapons for perspicacious subterraneous targets.

Mr Obama, who done non-proliferation a priority early in his presidency, subsequent month hosts an general limit on chief security.

His process examination comes as the US and Russia crop up close to a new understanding to condense their chief arsenals, notwithstanding Moscow"s concerns about Washington"s ultimate barb counterclaim plans in eastern Europe.

The extended outlines of a new covenant on chief weapons have been transparent given a limit in July, when Mr Obama and his Russian reflection Dmitry Medvedev concluded to condense the series of warheads on possibly side to in between 1,500 and 1,675.

The US administration department department is additionally pulling the Senate to sanction the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, that would anathema all chief tests, either troops or municipal in nature.

The UN General Assembly adopted the covenant in 1996 but it has not nonetheless entered in to force given countries such as the United States, Iran and Israel have nonetheless to sanction the treaty.