01-16-2018, 05:08 AM
You mean the 8 years in which Obama did nothing to prevent North Korea from building the devices and testing them?
No. Nuclear proliferation in general. The process of arms reduction under Bush Jr. was reversed in 2002 under the cancellation of the ABM treaty and we started designing more nuclear weapons. Russia also started to build more. No one seemed to really care, even Putin said it probably wasn't a good idea. Obama signed the START I treaty in 2009, but that's been the last effort and the US has not done much to reduce stockpiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/START_I
However the US can't police North Korea alone, it's extremely naive to try and blame one president or political party. The cold war of the 70's and 80's had a strong anti-nuclear sentiment world wide. However recently building more nukes and threating to use newer low grade nukes dubbed "mini-nukes" (like Bush wanted to develop for attacking middle east) shows an unnerving trend. It also shows the only way to keep the US and Russia from attacking is to have nuclear weapons for "defense". This is a trend everyone should be against. But sure, let's be small minded, leilanidude, and blame Obama.
No. Nuclear proliferation in general. The process of arms reduction under Bush Jr. was reversed in 2002 under the cancellation of the ABM treaty and we started designing more nuclear weapons. Russia also started to build more. No one seemed to really care, even Putin said it probably wasn't a good idea. Obama signed the START I treaty in 2009, but that's been the last effort and the US has not done much to reduce stockpiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/START_I
However the US can't police North Korea alone, it's extremely naive to try and blame one president or political party. The cold war of the 70's and 80's had a strong anti-nuclear sentiment world wide. However recently building more nukes and threating to use newer low grade nukes dubbed "mini-nukes" (like Bush wanted to develop for attacking middle east) shows an unnerving trend. It also shows the only way to keep the US and Russia from attacking is to have nuclear weapons for "defense". This is a trend everyone should be against. But sure, let's be small minded, leilanidude, and blame Obama.