Time to Reduce Nuclear Dangers

, co-director and senior scientist | March 6, 2013, 2:09 pm EST
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Dick Garwin and I recently wrote an op-ed making the case that it’s time for the United States to take steps to reduce the dangers posed by large nuclear arsenals. We argue that President Obama should reduce the total U.S. arsenal—short-range and long-range, deployed and stored—to 1,000 weapons and eliminate the U.S. policy of launch-on-warning.

The op-ed has been published in a number of papers, including here.

 

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  • Sean McKinnon

    These are the types of things UCS should spend it’s energy on things that will help mankind not attacking the only viable large scale source of carbon free electricity. Keep fighting nuclear weapons!