Obama puts nuclear weapons at the top of the list

Writing in the Wall Street Journal  today, Peter Speigel says that "President Barack Obama has moved nuclear deterrence to the top of the national security agenda -- and in his dealings in the past month with Iran, North Korea and Russia, revealed the issue to be an organizing principle to his foreign policy."

  White House advisers say that Obama's focus includes "an attempt at rebuilding the entire international arms-control regime, particularly the Cold War-era Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, out of fear that the decades-old controls are weakening from inattention."