Michaela Bendikova doesn't want the Obama administration to put its faith in arms control treaties but instead to trust in conservative nostrums:
Arms control treaties should be negotiated from a position of strength. After all, Ronald Reaganâ??s â??Peace Through Strengthâ? maxim brought about the end of the Cold War. This enduring principle suggests an alternative path to New START. Pursuing nuclear disarmament in a proliferated world without employing missile defense and maintaining credible nuclear deterrence increases instability, which can lead to nuclear war.
The Obama administration is employing missile defenses. It was literally the headline news out of the NATO summit. And they are maintaining a credible nuclear deterrent: when (if) the New START reductions occur, the U.S. will still have enough nuclear weapons to utterly destroy the capitals and industrial centers of basically any conceivable combination of adversaries. And that's before you account for America's overwhelming advantage in conventional arms.
