Eight years ago Obama was going to build a nuclear-free world. Well, like so many of his promises, this promise has become a plan that will do exactly the opposite. The administration wants to "modernize" our nuclear arsenal and production facilities. It would redesign nuclear warheads, as well as new nuclear bombers, submarines, land-based missiles, weapons labs and production plants. There will be a small cost - $1,000,000,000,000.00 - and it will take some time - 30 years.
And then there is the question of agreements we have signed. This nuclear “modernization” plan violates the terms of the 1968 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which requires the nuclear powers to engage in nuclear disarmament.
Do we need more than the 7,000 nuclear weapons we already have? Couldn't we use a trillion dollars in a better way?
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