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Nuclear Arms Cuts, Supported By 56% of Americans, Would Make the World Safer

Posted by Unknown on from the cold-war-never-ended dept.

Lasrick writes "Kingston Reif of the Nukes of Hazard blog writes about nuclear arms reductions are back in the news, thanks to President Obama's State of the Union address and now also a Gallup poll that shows 56% of Americans support U.S.-Russian reductions. From the Article: 'A recent report by the Center for Public Integrity revealed that senior Obama administration officials believe the United States can reduce its arsenal of deployed strategic warheads to between 1,000 and 1,100 without harming national security. Those numbers would put the total below levels called for by New START...' Congressional Republicans of course are against those cuts; Reif lays out why the cuts would make the U.S. and the world safer." Do we even need a thousand nuclear warheads?

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  1. More mineshafts by vakuona · · Score: 4, Funny

    Need to mind the mineshaft gap!

  2. Get rid of some by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we should send some of what we have now on a one-way trip to North Korea. That would make everyone happy. For the liberals we would have actually reduced the number left. For the conservatives we would have used them as intended and made the U.S. much safer by demonstrating that they can be used and are not just an empty threat.

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    1. Re:Get rid of some by BrokenHalo · · Score: 3, Funny

      For the conservatives we would have used them as intended and made the U.S. much safer by demonstrating that they can be used...

      Exactly. And in the interests of the economy, we shouldn't build any more nuclear weapons until we've used the ones we've got.

    2. Re:Get rid of some by gman003 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm all for that, as long as we have plenty of cameras rolling.

      Someone call up Michael Bay, Roland Emmerich and James Cameron - they're about to save a couple million in CGI effects. And get Shatner ready to narrate a sequel to Trinity and Beyond.