Obama on nuclear weapons

A NYT editorial calls on Obama to fulfill his election promises and reduce the number of nuclear warheads held by the US and drag Russia into this process. Of course, that makes sense; as the NYT notes, Russia and the US together still have more than 20,000 nuclear weapons. That's 20,000 too many: according to the NPT, the main international treaty that regulates those matters, states that have nuclear weapons must eliminate them as soon as possible. Well that was signed in 1968. So the US and Russia are basically 40 years late. But that's not such a problem for the NYT apparently. The "21st-century threats" are "states like Iran building nuclear weapons": again, there is no evidence Iran is trying to get nukes, and even if it is, they still don't have any. So the big culprit in nuclear matters are the US, Russia, France, UK and China, none of which have yet eliminated their nukes.