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Obama to make further cuts in nuclear weapons

White House considers nuclear-arms cuts, Philly.com, By Robert Burns 3 July 12 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is moving toward decisions that would further cut the number of U.S. nuclear weapons, possibly to between 1,000 and 1,100, reflecting new thinking on the role of nuclear weapons in an age of terror, current and former officials say.
The reductions under consideration are in line with President Obama’s vision of trimming the nation’s nuclear arsenal without harming national security in the short term, and in the longer term, eliminating nuclear weapons.

The White House has yet to announce any plan for reducing the number of nuclear weapons, beyond commitments made in the recently completed New Start treaty with Russia, which obliges both countries to reduce their number of deployed long-range nuclear warheads to no more than 1,550 by 2018. As of March 1, Russia had dropped its total to 1,492
and the U.S. stood at 1,737……http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/161304925.html

July 5, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war