ARTICLE: Congress Skeptical of Warhead Plan: Lawmakers and Experts Question Necessity, Implications of a New Nuclear Weapon, By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, April 22, 2007

I don't have any problem with exploring and developing a new warhead. I think nukes are good and keep the peace through deterrence. I just don't believe in the myth of strategic missile defense (though I support a tactical version) nor in global gun control. You want a nice lawn, then you grow grass instead of poisoning weeds. Nukes provide the strategic top-cover for the end of great power war. and I see no reason to mess with that historical reality. When states knock on that door, I let them in and seek integration by other means. Just look at all the middling powers we've successfully brought on board to some degree in the last quarter-century: only Pakistan, Israel and India have chosen to keep nukes. So many more walked or gave them up. Now, with the whole nuke paradigm shifting due to energy/environment, the counter-proliferation model seems more counter-productive by the day.