Morning Joe: Majority of UK Voters Want to Scrap Nuclear Weapons

Stories we're following today:

Voters Want Britain to Scrap All Nuclear Weapons, ICM Poll Shows - The Guardian [link]

• For decades nuclear disarmament has been seen as a minority issue, with most voters assumed to favour continued investment in an independent British nuclear weapons system. But today's poll shows that 54% of all voters would prefer to abandon nuclear weapons rather than put money into a new generation of Trident warheads, as the government plans. 

In Response to Obama's Successful Trip, Conservatives Flail About - National Security network [link]

• Upon returning from Moscow, the G-8 summit, and Africa, President Obama – and almost anyone closely following the trip – will be surprised to learn from conservatives that nothing was accomplished.
• Conservatives were on the attack this weekend, condemning President Obama’s trip abroad without attending to the results achieved at each stop. 

A Flash of Memory - Issey Miyake in the New York Times [link]

• On Aug. 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on my hometown, Hiroshima. I was there, and only 7 years old. When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape — I remember it all.
• In April, President Obama pledged to seek peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons. He called for not simply a reduction, but elimination... For there to be any hope of peace, people around the world must add their voices to President Obama’s.

Obama Vows a Veto In Dispute Over F-22 - Jeffrey Smith of the Washington Post [link]

• "We do not need these planes," Obama said in letters to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), and the committee's senior Republican, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), both of whom oppose the additional F-22s and spoke against them on the Senate floor yesterday. "I will veto any bill that supports acquisition of F-22s beyond the 187 already funded by Congress."
  

Offense-Defense Nonsense - Peter Scoblic in The New Republic [link]

• Given, however, that the Obama administration is not only shrinking the U.S. nuclear arsenal, but also is hoping to negotiate or ratify a variety of other accords to reduce the salience of nuclear weapons in international politics, it's worth dissecting the flaws in Krauthammer's argument.

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