Ah, if wishing could make it so:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say.
In a speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Mr. Obama will add his voice to a plan endorsed earlier this year by a bipartisan group of former government officials from the cold war era who say the United States must begin building a global consensus to reverse a reliance on nuclear weapons that have become “increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.”
Mr. Obama, according to details provided by his campaign Monday, also will call for pursuing vigorous diplomatic efforts aimed at a global ban on the development, production and deployment of intermediate-range missiles.
So. We reduce our stockpiles, and that encourages all the despots in the world to give up their nukes (prodded, of course, by a little "why can't we just get along?" diplomacy), and everbody who knows how to build a nuclear weapon will magically forget that knowledge.
A little dreamy mindlessness is to be expected during a presidential campaign, but Obama is abusing the privilege.
