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Obama’s Youthful Ideals Shaped the Long Arc of His Nuclear-Free Vision

In college, Barack Obama wrote about nuclear arms. As a senator, he viewed a deactivated Russian nuclear missile. (Chicago Tribune Photo, 2005)

In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of "a nuclear free world." He railed against discussions of "first- versus second-strike capabilities" that "suit the military-industrial interests" with their "billion-dollar erector sets," and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.