Obama signs off on new nuclear weapons production

Two strong articles have appeared in response to President Obama's decision to fund three new nuclear weapons production facilities. Greg Mello writes in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that Obama, despite his Nobel Peace Prize, never really articulated a disarmament agenda. Father John Dear laments in the National Catholic Reporter that the President's decision to "raise up a hopeful vision and, behind the scenes, ensure its dying" is an "Orwellian nightmare".