Barack Obama is expected to make a final decision next month on possible cuts to the US nuclear arsenal, in an attempt to consolidate his legacy as a disarmer before leaving office. The administration official said there might be more steps to come before Obama leaves office in January. In a speech in Prague in April 2009, he pledged US commitment “to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons”. “Obama has missed multiple opportunities to realise lasting change in nuclear weapons policy,” Kimball said. Obama offered to make the reduction in a 2013 speech in Berlin, on condition Russia did the same.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2016 10:30 UTC