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US - nukleer weapons

From Ask the Globe:

What is the Bush administration's position on reducing the United States's nuclear arsenal?

Nearly a year ago, the United States and Russia signed a treaty requiring both countries to cut their strategic nuclear arsenals to between 1,700 and 2,200 deployed warheads by 2012.

At present, the United States has 10,729 intact nuclear warheads with spare parts available for thousands more, according to the Washington-based Center for Defense Information.

The U.S. Senate approved the treaty earlier this month; Russian legislators this week postponed a ratification vote. The United States has a huge tactical-nuclear-weapons arsenal not covered by the treaty.

The Centre for Defense Information says that notwithstanding the treaty, the United States is modernizing its nuclear arsenal on several fronts. For example, the United States has upgraded its Minuteman ICBMs and the Trident II missiles.

Is it just me or is TEN THOUSAND a bit much, considering that other than Russia, the entire rest of the world has what, like 500?
Canada has zero.

This actually leads to a bit of thinking which turns the whole US position on Iraq inside-out.
Ok, you're a terrorist. A mean nasty no-holds-barred terrorist.
Are you going to
A) Try to surmount substantial barriers to smuggle WMD into the US or
B) Just use the vast array of WMD already within the United States

Seems to me, if the US is worried about terrorists using WMD on The Homeland, they should be frantically destroying the thousands of weapons they already have scattered across the entire country. posted by Richard at 12:58 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)