Obama at One Year: "A" for Transforming Nuclear Policy, "Incomplete" for Execution

The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a Ploughshares Fund grantee, gave President Barack Obama a grade of "A" for transforming United States nuclear weapons policy during his first year in office and an "Incomplete" for completing the new policy initiatives he has launched.  John Isaacs, the Center's executive director, said, "President Obama's forthrightness about the dangers of nuclear weapons and the need to take immediate action to avoid a nuclear holocaust constitute the most significant remarks by an American President on nuclear disarmament in the last half century."  Lt. Gen. Robert Gard (U.S Army, ret.) the Center's chairman, Lt. Gen. Robert Gard (U.S Army, ret.) the Center's chairman, pointed to the following key steps ahead: ratification of a new nuclear reductions treaty with Russia; completion of a Nuclear Posture Review that revamps American nuclear policy; and a new budget providing resources to begin securing all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within three or four years, among others.