By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel

As a reminder, since the summer has been quite busy with health care policy development, unemployment, economy bottom-watching, and race-rooted debate, Afghanistan…the centerpiece policy of the Obama administration is nuclear disarmament.

He gave us a reminder yesterday, when he scrapped the missile defense intiative.

Remember back to Spring, in April this year, his speech in Prague? Here’s the full transcript for your review:

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“Some argue that the spread of these weapons cannot be stopped, cannot be checked -– that we are destined to live in a world where more nations and more people possess the ultimate tools of destruction. Such fatalism is a deadly adversary, for if we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable, then in some way we are admitting to ourselves that the use of nuclear weapons is inevitable.

Just as we stood for freedom in the 20th century, we must stand together for the right of people everywhere to live free from fear in the 21st century. (Applause.) And as nuclear power –- as a nuclear power, as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act. We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it.

So today, I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. (Applause.) I'm not naive. This goal will not be reached quickly –- perhaps not in my lifetime. It will take patience and persistence. But now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change. We have to insist, "Yes, we can." (Applause.)”

President Obama knows that this is the big issue, not in a self-serving way in which he will be remembered in history downloads for your Kindle. Rather, he knows that the existence of nuclear weapons inhibits so many good things about the world. People control nuclear weapons. He knows that.

We should know that in the midst of the seemingly full plate Obama possesses, that his vision of nuclear disarmamnent is the plate upon which everything else sits. Just a reminder. Pass the plate, please…