NEWSMAX: The Obama administration is weighing options for sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons, The Associated Press has learned.
No final decision has been made, but the administration is considering at least three options for lower total numbers of deployed strategic nuclear weapons cutting to: 1,000 to 1,100; 700 to 800, and 300 to 400, according to a former government official and a congressional staffer. Both spoke on condition of anonymity in order to reveal internal administration deliberations…
A spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council, Tommy Vietor, said Tuesday that the options the Pentagon has developed have not been presented to Obama… (more)
EDITOR: Note that the NewsMax headline is misleading. According to the report, it is the Pentagon that “mulls 80 percenet disarmament” , not yet President Barack Obama.
