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To the Point

Obama's Nuclear Legacy

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In his first term, President Obama pledged to work for nuclear disarmament.  But America's arsenal is still being "modernized" -- and he's approved $11 billion for a so-called "smart" bomb.  Is he living up to the promise that got him the Nobel Peace Prize?

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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:41.0

Barack Obama's nuclear legacy.

0:47.0

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point.

0:52.9

Donald Trump is being pilloried for asking this question, if we have nuclear weapons, why can't we use them?

0:57.0

Critics say Trump fails to grasp the danger of global catastrophe. President Obama says that's why we can't use them, and we should phase them out.

1:02.0

When he'd barely taken office, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for just promising to work for nuclear disarmament.

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But in the last days of his second term, he's continuing to modernize America's

1:12.1

arsenal in approving the so-called smart bomb, potentially more usable than weapons we already have.

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