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New Nuclear Weapon
B61–12 Warhead These days as we remember the USA nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki my thoughts go to how in the last seven years of the Presidency of Barack Obama the nuclear bomb scare has increased. President Obama, despite calling repeatedly for “a world without nuclear weapons,” has reduced the size of the nation’s atomic stockpile far less than did any of his three immediate predecessors, including both Presidents Bush. President Obama in his terms has overseen the building of three new nuclear bomb plants in the USA and the development of a new nuclear weapon, B61–12 warhead, consider the most dangerous weapon in the USA arsenal. Now the Obama administration is planning to spend more than $1 trillion over the next three decades to significantly upgrade its nuclear weapons capability.
The President in visiting Hiroshima not only refused to apologize on behalf of the USA for the nuclear destruction but show dishonor for the loss of so many lives by fortifying the nuclear weapon arsenal in the USA.
My heart aches for the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but is most sad for the people of the USA who pay lip service to nuclear disarmament but support a president and congressional figures who make this world a more dangerous place with nuclear weapons. When will we ever learn?
