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A Practical Path to Deep Nuclear Reductions

IN THIS ISSUE: A practical path to deep nuclear reductions, Obama's Prague agenda two years on, Is Merkel irrational?, Iran prepares improved centrifuges, Japan crisis fuels India nuclear safety concerns, British Trident subs to field enhanced U.S.-made warheads.

Published on April 5, 2011
 

Low Numbers: A Practical Path to Deep Nuclear Reductions

James Acton | Carnegie Report

Low Numbers

U.S. policy seeks to create the conditions that would allow for deep reductions in nuclear arsenals. Carnegie's James Acton offers a practical approach to reducing the U.S. and Russian stockpiles to 500 nuclear warheads each and those of other nuclear-armed states to no more than about half that number. This target would require Washington and Moscow to reduce their arsenals by a factor of ten.

To achieve these low numbers, Acton argues that the United States should take a comprehensive approach on arms control; engage with its allies to review security threats and responses; address and stabilize conventional imbalances among the United States, China, and Russia; and push for an eventual transparent and multilateral arms control process with other nuclear-armed states. Full Article  
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