Campaign Spot reader Ed offers this thought on our new nuclear posture:

The only thing that might save our bacon on the “no first use even against other WMD” announcement was presaged years ago by Herman Kahn (he’s the guy who wrote On Thermonuclear War, which was a HUGELY controversial book back in the day [1960]).
Years after the book, Kahn said we should announce a no first use policy, because while it would be good PR in many quarters, none of the people we needed to deter would believe we meant it.
There is, of course, a great risk that the people we need to deter WILL believe Obama. We’d better hope they figure out that all his statements expire.

Dear hostile foreign states: Obama allegedly offered to make a guy secretary of the navy in order to avoid a Democratic Senate primary. If lighting up your country like the closing scenes of the third Terminator movie could save a House seat or two, he’ll do it.