Emmons writes: "While President Obama called for a 'moral awakening' in
Hiroshima and restated his ambition for a nuclear-weapon free future, back
in Washington, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., criticized him for moving forward
with a costly plan to renovate the U.S. nuclear arsenal."
Senator Ed Markey. (photo: Kit Noble)
Senator Ed Markey Scolds Obama for Preaching 'Nuclear Temperance From a Bar
Stool'
By Alex Emmons, The Intercept
31 May 16
While President Obama called for a "moral awakening" in Hiroshima and
restated his ambition for a nuclear-weapon free future, back in Washington,
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., criticized him for moving forward with a costly
plan to renovate the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
"The U.S. cannot preach nuclear temperance from a bar stool," Markey wrote
in a Boston Globe opinion piece.
Obama's Hiroshima speech was reminiscent of the one he gave in Prague, only
three months into his presidency, when he announced that he would "seek the
peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."
In 2010, he negotiated a treaty that limited the U.S. and Russia to 1,550
deployed, strategic nuclear weapons each.
But that was as far as he would go. Obama is set to maintain the U.S.
arsenal of 1,528 deployed warheads - almost half of which are on 30-minute
alert - despite a 2013 White House assessment that he could safely reduce
the U.S. arsenal by a third.
Obama is also pushing for a $1 trillion effort to replace the U.S.'s entire
stock of long-range strike bombers, cruise missiles, nuclear submarines, and
land-based missiles - which experts have said is sure to cause an arms race.
Markey attacked the modernization program on the Senate floor on Thursday.
"The United States must take the lead," Markey said, "instead of wasting
billions of dollars on dangerous new nuclear weapons that do nothing to keep
our nation safe."
Markey also promoted a measure he introduced to delay the procurement of the
new nuclear cruise missile, which he called a destabilizing and "dangerous
new weapon."
Erica Fein, nuclear policy expert with Women's Action for New Directions,
said it was courageous for Markey to "call out [his] party leader, something
only a handful of other Democrats have been willing to do on this topic."
Last month, Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee lined up to
kill a measure that would require the Congressional Budget Office to simply
estimate the modernization's cost over three decades.
But last week, at an event at the Brookings Institution, Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz., broke ranks with his own party, calling the new generation of
submarines "very, very, very expensive" and questioning, "Do we even need
the entire Triad given this situation?"
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Senator Ed Markey Scolds Obama for Preaching 'Nuclear Temperance From a Bar
Stool'
By Alex Emmons, The Intercept
31 May 16
hile President Obama called for a "moral awakening" in Hiroshima and
restated his ambition for a nuclear-weapon free future, back in Washington,
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., criticized him for moving forward with a costly
plan to renovate the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
"The U.S. cannot preach nuclear temperance from a bar stool," Markey wrote
in a Boston Globe opinion piece.
Obama's Hiroshima speech was reminiscent of the one he gave in Prague, only
three months into his presidency, when he announced that he would "seek the
peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."
In 2010, he negotiated a treaty that limited the U.S. and Russia to 1,550
deployed, strategic nuclear weapons each.
But that was as far as he would go. Obama is set to maintain the U.S.
arsenal of 1,528 deployed warheads - almost half of which are on 30-minute
alert - despite a 2013 White House assessment that he could safely reduce
the U.S. arsenal by a third.
Obama is also pushing for a $1 trillion effort to replace the U.S.'s entire
stock of long-range strike bombers, cruise missiles, nuclear submarines, and
land-based missiles - which experts have said is sure to cause an arms race.
Markey attacked the modernization program on the Senate floor on Thursday.
"The United States must take the lead," Markey said, "instead of wasting
billions of dollars on dangerous new nuclear weapons that do nothing to keep
our nation safe."
Markey also promoted a measure he introduced to delay the procurement of the
new nuclear cruise missile, which he called a destabilizing and "dangerous
new weapon."
Erica Fein, nuclear policy expert with Women's Action for New Directions,
said it was courageous for Markey to "call out [his] party leader, something
only a handful of other Democrats have been willing to do on this topic."
Last month, Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee lined up to
kill a measure that would require the Congressional Budget Office to simply
estimate the modernization's cost over three decades.
But last week, at an event at the Brookings Institution, Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz., broke ranks with his own party, calling the new generation of
submarines "very, very, very expensive" and questioning, "Do we even need
the entire Triad given this situation?"
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