Where's Kerry on Nuclear Weapons?

As I was watching Bill Maher devistate Sean Hannity last night, Hannity whined that John Kerry once voted for a nuclear freeze. Sounds good to me. How can we put pressure on other countries not to develope nuclear weapons when the Bushmeister is proposing the development of new nuclear weapons?

But this doesn't seem to have been much of a campaign issue. Does anybody know what Kerry's position is on nuclear weaponry?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7874-2004Jun1.html

http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?vote_id=1012&can_id=S0421103

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/6/1/220814.shtml



http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/national_security/weapons.html

John Kerry has proposed a comprehensive strategy that uses all of our resources and the might of our alliances to:

* Safeguard Existing Stockpiles of Dangerous Weapons and Materials including an acceleration of programs to secure all nuclear weapons and materials within the former Soviet Union, and at research reactors in countries outside the former Soviet Union, within 4 years.

* End Production of New Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons by negotiating a global ban on production of new material.

* Reduce Existing Stocks of Nuclear Weapons and Materials by ending development of the new generation of nuclear weapons, accelerating reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, and reducing stocks of dangerous highly enriched uranium in Russia.

* End Nuclear Weapons Programs in Hostile States, including by prioritizing negotiations with North Korea to ensure the complete, irreversible and verifiable elimination of its nuclear weapons program, and leading a global effort to prevent Iran from obtaining the materials necessary to build nuclear weapons.

* Enhance International Efforts to Eliminate Illegal Trafficking Networks by toughening export controls, stiffening penalties, and strengthening law enforcement and intelligence sharing as well as improving the proliferation security initiative.

Appoint a presidential coordinator to prevent nuclear terrorism who will focus exclusively on directing a top line effort to secure all nuclear weapons and materials around the world and prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.

Appreciate that.

comprehensive strategy

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