Unbelievable that the world’s lone super-power, America, has its helm someone who is broadcasting to the world that should they attack us, our response would be “a series of graded options,” but not nuclear reprisal.

From the New York Times,

“For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.
Those threats, Mr. Obama argued, could be deterred with “a series of graded options,” a combination of old and new conventional weapons. “I’m going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the American people are safe and secure,” he said in the interview in the Oval Office.
White House officials said the new strategy would include the option of reconsidering the use of nuclear retaliation against a biological attack, if the development of such weapons reached a level that made the United States vulnerable to a devastating strike.”

Doesn’t he mean, reconsider should there be anyone still capable of reconsidering?

And, that “series of graded options” means what, cut off their supply of Nabisco Cookies?