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Article: Let the United States first cast out the beam from its own eye. (U.S. nuclear weapons impose greater risks on the international community than those of India and Pakistan)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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In the fury of condemning India and Pakistan for their recent nuclear tests, the media has largely ignored the more pervasive and dangerous conduct of the United States and Russia. While India and Pakistan possess, at most, a handful of nuclear weapons and no long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation reports that the United States and Russia each have about 10,000 nuclear warheads and the missiles to deliver them. The environmental and security risks posed by these vast arsenals make the India-Pakistan nuclear problem pale by comparison.
For one thing, there is a long list of historical false alarms that have brought the ...