The reality is grey.

The U.S. are going to discard B-52 and B-2 bombers – when? No one knows.
The U.S. are going to discard atomic Tomahawk missles – when? No one knows.

That’s it.

At the same time, the U.S. is going to quadruple it’s Plutonium production.
Source: Le Monde diplomatique / April 2010.

And: The U.S. is going to upgrade, modernize it’s atomic B-61 bombs.
And the IPPNW knows what B-61s are:
http://www.ippnw.org/ResourceLibrary/NPRBrief.pdf

They are the prefered weapoms of the HPAC simulation attack against Iran.

And: Northkorea became atomic, Iran, and many more countries, because the IAEA sells the ideology of atomic power all aroung the globe.
Reactors and bombs are siamese twins.

IPPNW, don’t be so naive and decay into romantic harmony need.
regards,
T.

Everyone who reads this blog and others like it knows that the NPR does not go far enough towards the goal of total elimination, but they must admit that it is an important reversal of US policy. We activists may never be able to reach the hardliners, but we can appeal to their constituents, peeople who do not make a steady diet of arms control news, whose top priority is probably not total elimination, and indeed may even believe in nuclear deterrence.

The NPR brings this issue into the mainstream of public consciousness. For me, that is one of the real merits of the NPR. It opens up the minds of the people the hardliners appeal to by creating an atmosphere in which disarmament is polite dinner conversation in mixed company.

Lars Pohlmeier

P.S. To share this: we have had talks with VERY high ranking conservative politicians in Germany who felt that our proposals were very sensible concerning nuclear arms (they do not want to be named in public – yet). This is very encouraging. Plus there is more media interest too in our work as experts in this field.