Instead he stated, as leader of the country with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons on the planet, that we're to "pursue a future without nuclear weapons".
he should have probably told the pentagon that because we have a strategy called nuclear deterrence that relies on nukes.
remember when BO won the nobel peace prize in 2009 for his plan to draw down nuclear weapons?
Obama Orders Up More Money for Nukes, Less to Keep Them in Safe Hands | Mother Jones