Should Isreal Declare It's Nukes ?

Isreal has nerver signed the Non-Proliferation treaty.What do you think?

President Obama: The Audacity of Hope

I would also argue that we have the right to take unilateral military action to eliminate an imminent theart to our security-so long as an imminent threat is understood to be a nation,group,or individual that is actively preparing to strike U.S.targets{or allies with which the United States has mutual defense agreements],and has or will have the means to do so in the immediate future.Al Qaeda qualifies under this standard,and we can and should carry out preemptive strikes against them whenever we can.

President Obama--The Audacity of Hope

The more credible the information that the International Atomic Energy Agency provides,the more likely we are to mobilize allies against the efforts of rogue states to obtain nuclear weapons.The greater the capacity of the World Health Organization,the less likely we are to have to deal with a flu pandemic in our own country.No country has a bigger stake than we do in strengthening international institutions--which is why we pushed for their creation in the first place,and why we need to take the lead in improving them

President Obama--The Audacity of Hope

Looming perhaps largest of all was Ronald Ragan,whose clarity about communism seemed matched by his blindness regarding other sources of misery in the world.The more I studied nuclear arms policy,the more I found Star Wars to be ill conceived; the chasm between Reagan's soaring rhetoric and the tawdry Iran-Contra deal left me speechless.

President Obama: The Audacity Of Hope

What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics-the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial,our chronic avoidance of tough decisions,our seeming inability to build a working consensus to tackle any big problem.