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Article: Ready, aim, fire. (Nuclear Posture).(nuclear weapons policy)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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ON MAY 24, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush signed a spanking new arms control agreement in Russia. The treaty, which he claimed would "liquidate the legacy of the Cold War," mandates the reduction of deployed strategic nuclear weapons to between 1,700 and 2,200 over the next decade, a reduction of about 4,000 weapons for each country. Yet even as the administration touts these would-be reductions and basks in its victory in Afghanistan, it has been elevating the development and possible use of nuclear weapons to what looks like the centerpiece of its new national security agenda. This has engendered something of a backlash in Congress.
The agreement signed in Russia ...