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Obama’s nuclear plan tangled in election politics

Election may alter timing of Obama’s plan to cut arsenal

By Bryan Bender

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 30, 2012

Since he first took office more than three years ago, President Obama has repeatedly pledged to seek deeper reductions in the US nuclear arsenal. But as the White House nears the completion of a review of nuclear strategy, Obama’s advisers are locked in an internal debate over how to roll out his ambitious plans without endangering his reelection chances or alienating fellow Democrats with powerful constituencies at stake, according to current and former officials directly involved in the discussions.

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