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Barack Obama inherited capability for global nuclear strike

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Published 15 October, 2009, 02:22

A system developed under George Bush gives the Pentagon the capability to carry out pre-emptive nuclear strikes against countries with WMDs, says Ivan Oelrich from the Federation of American Scientists.

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