They will serve as a hedge against “rising and resurgent powers” like Russia or China, as well as “rogue nations” like Iran or North Korea and international terrorists.

This from Secretary of Defense Gates who passes for somewhat sane in this administration and might well look like Ghandi in a McCain administration.

Because we can achieve world peace if we just accumulate enough super sophisticated nuclear weapons. We almost managed to do it in the 1980's but those lily livered Democrats stopped us. Time to forge ahead.

Or maybe we could try negotiating with Russia and not borrowing so much from China.