We Need New Nukes by Caspar Weinberger Jr.

Ridding the world of nuclear weapons won’t be the way George Bush will be remembered, but the fact is this week he personally authorized a sizeable reduction of the U.S. nuclear arms inventory. Over three-quarters of the U.S. atomic weapons that were stock-piled at the end of the cold war have now been or are about to be destroyed.

For obvious security reasons our government is not saying exactly how many units of our existing nuclear arsenal are being taken “off-line” and then being permanently disposed of, but we do know that America started the year with about 6,000 nuclear bombs under its control. Some of those are deployed but most are in reserve.

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