No first nuke?
Should America abandon the first strike? That is apparently at the heart of a meeting today between President Obama and defence secretary Robert Gates.
They are working on a document called the Nuclear Posture Review. A lot has been decided.
A senior administration official has told the BBC there will be a "dramatic reductions in the nuclear stockpile, while maintaining a strong and reliable deterrent".
When the paper becomes public the president will announce that he's getting rid of thousands of weapons, and won't develop a new generation of weapons, including the nuclear bunker busters proposed by George W Bush.
Instead there will be a new focus on how conventional missiles will be used. All this is in line with President Obama's vision of a nuclear free world, set out in Prague a little less than a year ago.
Those who've talked with him in private about the issue have no doubt this is a personal priority, not a political stance.
The New York Times reports that one huge issue has yet to be settled. When should nuclear weapons be used?
The left of the president's party says there should be working to make it clear they are only there as a deterrence.
Others want to leave open the possibility of a first strike. I can't see the military wanting to shut off their options, or the president defying them.
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