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Article: Curb Nuclear Weapons Excess
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- Arms Control Today
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Arms Control Association May 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War and President George H. W. Bush's 1992 decision to end the production of new nuclear weapons. Today, U.S. military might is unrivaled. By far, its greatest security challenge is stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and reducing the likelihood that they are someday used.
Yet, as the current Bush administration rightly calls on others to forswear nuclear weapons, it continues to pursue a costly and counterproductive campaign to research and develop new, more "usable" nuclear weapons. It also wants to significantly expand U.S. capabilities to build nuclear warheads. These moves run counter to accepted international norms of ...