Transformative Leadership in Arms Control and Nonproliferation

Hudson Institute Presidential Transition Papers

January 8, 2009
by Christopher Ford

The Obama Administration may face great pressure quickly

to adopt all the policy prescriptions of arms control and disarmament

community activists who imagine he will be the

answer to all their prayers. It should resist this pressure, however

and undertake its own bottom-up review of strategic and

arms control policy. If taken seriously in light of Obama's

cam paign promises, such a review would entail struggling

with thorny significant challenges in the arena of disarmament

policy. He should not be unwilling to question his most

fundamental assumptions in this review.

Christopher A. Ford was formerly Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Technology and Global Security at Hudson Institute.

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