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The Solution to the United States Ageing Nuclear Arsenal

The Solution to the United States Ageing Nuclear Arsenal
Cleantech 23 Feb 09 

The United States’ thousands of nuclear warheads have the explosive equivalent of over 1 gigaton of TNT. It’s an amount of energy that could literally move mountains, reroute rivers, alter climate, and result in the deaths of hundreds of millions or even billions of people, through fire, radiation, and starvation………..

…………….In the March 2009 issue of IEEE Spectrum, Francis Slakey and Benn Tannenbaum argue that the current program of “stockpile stewardship,” with some modifications, will be sufficient to preserve the U.S. arsenal for the foreseeable future. It isn’t necessary, and may even be counterproductive, they say, for the United States to pursue new warheads.

 

The Solution to the United States Ageing Nuclear Arsenal

February 23, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war