NPR: dig in!

 
 (Image from the Department of Defense website)


The full-blown announcement of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was today!  Is it weird that I find this incredibly exciting?

There were remarks by Secretaries Gates, Clinton, and Chu describing the report in a briefing earlier today.  The NPR is the policy document that explicitly defines the U.S. policy on nuclear weapons:  how many we should have, the conditions under which we might use them, our strategies for addressing nuclear proliferation, the treaty obligations we will support, and the weapons development projects we will perform. 

The Obama NPR breaks very significantly from several of the previous versions, and I would anticipate significant commentary and response world-wide in the next few weeks.  Of note:  this is the first such review that is completely unclassified!  You can read the whole thing at:
 http://www.defense.gov/npr/

Here's a CNN article with video from the briefing.