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

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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No thanks!

[Anonymous Coward]

Disarmament is a joke. How do we certify that our opposition have unloaded theirs? It's impossible.

If the U.S.A. were to honestly and truly disarm, then we'd just be the only country without them. No thanks.

M.A.D. is the only way.

Isn't it the constitutional right of any American

[Tim Ward]

... to buy as many nukes as they like at any gun show without even having to prove their identity?