CHICAGO -- Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama is converting his campaign promises on nuclear nonproliferation into policy and is beginning to move to meet those pledges, one nonproliferation expert said yesterday.
The new administration has already indicated that its next budget would include no funding for development of a new nuclear weapon and that it intends to cut spending on missile defense activities, said Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund.
Obama has also shown a willingness to engage with known nuclear-weapon states such as Russia and North Korea and with one nation still suspected in Washington of having nuclear weapons aspirations -- Iran.
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