Same BS no matter how you word it. USAʻS BEEN @ NUCLEAR WAR WITH OUR PLANET USING DEPLETED URANIUM with a half life of 4.5BILLION YEARS!YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THEIR "GLOBAL SECURITY" IS A NEW WORLD ORDER WHICH MASSIVE GENOCIDE OF 85% WORLD POPULATION!
Obama calls new nuclear strategy a 'significant step'
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama today vowed to constrain use of the nation's Cold War-era nuclear arsenal, in a bold but politically risky move aimed at discouraging the technology from spreading.
Obama's plan, a sharp departure from his predecessor's policy, downplays the nuclear threat posed by nations like Russia and China while emphasizing the threat posed by terrorists or states believed to encourage terrorism.
Obama said in a statement that his administration was taking a "significant step forward" by recognizing that "the greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.
"Moreover, it recognizes that our national security and that of our allies and partners can be increasingly defended by America's unsurpassed conventional military capabilities and strong missile defenses."
The Nuclear Posture Review will help "stop the spread of nuclear weapons, prevent nuclear terrorism, and pursue the day when these weapons do not exist ...," Obama's statement says.
Under the new plan, the U.S. promises not to use nuclear weapons against countries that don't have them. The policy would not apply to states like North Korea and Iran, however, because of their refusal to cooperate with the international community on nonproliferation standards.
Obama's plan would lessen the role nuclear weapons play in America's defense planning.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he welcomes the president's reaffirmation of his commitment toward a nuclear-free world and believes the Nuclear Posture Review "is a timely initiative in that direction."
Congressional Democrats also hailed the decision, while some Republicans said it could weaken the U.S. defense capability.
Rep. Buck McKeon of California, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said the policy change could carry "clear consequences" for security and said he was troubled by "some of the language and perceived signals imbedded" in the policy.
At a Pentagon news conference, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the unprecedented limits being placed on the U.S. nuclear arsenal won't weaken the nation's defense and will send a "strong message" to Iran and North Korea to "play by the rules."
"All options are on the table when it comes to countries in that category," Gates said.
Obama also has stopped short of saying the U.S. will never be the first to launch a nuclear attack, as many arms control advocates want.
Gates said the administration decided against limiting the nation's options further because of the danger still being posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
"This is obviously a weapon of last resort," Gates told reporters. But "we also recognize the real world we continue to live in."
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he "wholly endorses" the plan and believes it includes effective deterrents.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the redrawn policy shores up the U.S. commitment to global nonproliferation efforts, including the Nonproliferation Treaty, under which states without nuclear weapons are supposed to refrain from developing them.
She said Washington is reinforcing its commitment to a nonproliferation culture "by stating clearly for the first time that the United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states" that have signed the treaty and abide by it.
Clinton said the U.S. will continue to try to seek common ground with Russia on the issue of missile defense despite the Kremlin's fear that such systems are aimed at crippling its nuclear arsenal.
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This was the stepping off point for me and almost to a point of no return. But, thanks to my mom, I know longer have to live a life in their Haystack, I am free.
"Samuel J. Mills, Jr.
April 21, 1783 - 1818
The last child born to Mills, Sr. and Esther was a boy, named Samuel J. Mills, Jr. born April 21, 1783 in the parsonage of the Torringford Church. He was schooled in Torringford and in Morris Academy, South Farms, Litchfield before going to Williams College. One of his main influences was his mother. His mother had said "I consecrated this child to the service of God as a missionary."
The Litchfield Hills has had much influence in missions work. Her influence is most prominent in that of missions with the gift of Samuel J. Mills, Jr. His biggest accomplishment was his participation in the Haystack Prayer Meeting at Williams College in 1806. He was one of five young men at that meeting; two of whom came from the Torringford Church and one from Kent, CT.
The seed was planted and germinated at the Torringford Church, which grew into the start of the American Board for Foreign Missions movement and the American Bible Society. It is with this mindset that the Torringford Volunteer Fire Department has adopted the Torringford seal, seen on all of our trucks. Like Samuel J. Mills, Jr. we have our own mission. Our mission is neighbors helping neighbors in their times of need. When you see us on the road or if you visit the fire house and see that seal on our vehicles, please remember how it all started in this area many years ago."
In this Haystack committee, birthed the emancipation from slavery, and capitalism. What transpired from this prayer was the beginning of the missionaries in Hawaii. Should American Studies and Hawaiian Studies join hands at University of Hawaii at Manoa join hands they will conjoin and sister their premise of arguments from Williams College, Yale, MIT and Harvard. Hawaiians will have access to Stephen Phillips scholarship a once known anthropologist from Bishop Museum. His sister invented the Monopoly game, and she had set up a scholarship program for Hawaiians and Hawaiian research. One can visit Stephen Phillips home a museum today in Salem, Mass.
International Law, we need more students to study the rule of law and transition or bridge understanding as to why we are at the affect of world and military might.
Kaohi