Presidential Campaign Might Affect U.S. Plans for Pursuing Nuclear Curbs

Presidential Campaign Might Affect U.S. Plans for Pursuing Nuclear Curbs

Election-year political considerations are playing significantly into a high-level Obama administration deliberation on the method and schedule for announcing details from a confidential assessment expected to lay the groundwork for potential further reductions to the U.S. stockpile of nuclear arms, participants in the exchange told the Boston Globe in comments reported on Monday (see GSN, April 4).