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Bush OKs hefty cuts in nuclear arsenal

WASHINGTON - President Bush has approved "A significant reduction" In the U.S. Nuclear weapons stockpile, cutting it to less than one-quarter its size at the end of the Cold War, the White House said Tuesday. At the same time, the Energy Department announced plans to consolidate the nuclear weapons complex that maintains warheads and dismantles those no longer needed, saying the current facilities need to be made more efficient and more easily secured and that the larger complex is no longer needed.
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U.S. Spending on Nuclear Weapons Exceeds $52 Billion
By Federation of American Scientists

Thus, the majority of nuclear weapons spending (55.5%) is allocated towards upgrading, operating and sustaining the U.S. Nuclear arsenal. A much smaller fraction (10%) is devoted to controlling the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, the study found.
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I believe that while we have lessened the amount of nukes we have there are still just as many nukes in the world. This is due to the amount of countries who are nuclear ready. We can hope that the countries who have nuclear technology reduces the amount of their nukes nut I doubt that is going to happen.

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Nuclear Cuts

US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev reach a deal in Moscow to cut back their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Ref. BBC

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Nice way to get rid of your obsolete models and get brownie points for world peace at the same time.

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Yeah we will get rid of the obsolete models but at the same time build better models that will carry the same capacity but in fewer warheads. Makes it look good on paper because you cut back the number of war heads.

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I was just about to say that President Obama is really making strides but you guys opened my eyes about what all of this was really about. You guys are really smart.

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There is no reason from a strategic standpoint to eliminate our nuclear weapons in the United States. Reduction on our part will not increase our ability to defend ourselves, in my opinion. I believe it will actually increase the likelihood of another World War.

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I am in complete agreement with the authors of this article. Nuclear disarmament will increase the amount of full scale wars that occur, and will in no way bring peace to this world.