Obama has made repeated promises to abolish nuclear weapons altogether much like how Lincoln abolished slavery in the United States. I wonder if Obama was influenced by the anti-nuclear movement in the nineteen eighties. When I was in grade school in the early eighties, there was very strong reaction to the Reagan administration's efforts to increase the US nuclear arsenal. I remember that scientists such as Carl Sagan were on TV warning about nuclear winter and journalists like Jonathan Schnell and Fred Kaplan wrote books about the pointlessness of nuclear war. There was TV docudramas about the effects of nuclear war such as The Day After, Testament, and Threads, which was a BBC production shown on American cable television. So often the Reagan era as being time that conservative ideas  were fully developed, but little is written about how the anti-nuclear movement may have influenced current progressive politicians such as Obama.