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...promise. And any move to produce new nuclear weapons will be read by other nations as a U.S. push for nuclear supremacy, even as Washington urges the rest of the world - Tehran, are you listening? - to do without the weapons. Russia would very likely respond by upgrading its own arsenal...
...Gates argues that building a new generation of more reliable nuclear warheads would give the U.S. the confidence to shrink its overall nuclear arsenal. After all, if you have only a 50% level of confidence that a nuclear weapon is going to perform as advertised, you'll need twice as many. The U.S., under a self-imposed moratorium, has not conducted nuclear tests to assure the reliability and potency of its weapons since 1992. But it does spend more than $5 billion a year conducting analyses and computerized tests to monitor the health of the weapons. (RRW is estimated...
...Military officers have also expressed concern over relying on the aging atomic arsenal. (Skeptics note that U.S. policy tends to embrace the notion that all nuclear weapons possessed by adversaries will work, while those possessed by the U.S. won't.) "The path of inaction is a path leading toward nuclear disarmament," Air Force General Kevin Chilton, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, warned last month. "The time...
...Saretsky said. “We have a lot of really exciting meets coming up so we hope a lot of people come out to watch.” Heading into the final stretch before Heps, Harvard has to be pleased with what it has in its arsenal. According to the International Association of Athletics Federations, senior high jumper Becky Christensen is currently tied with just four other jumpers as No. 1 high jumper in the world. Christensen is the only representative from the United States. And the Crimson has a solid batch of freshmen to balance out their stalwart...
...North Koreans don't want to put into writing what they put into words.' CHRISTOPHER HILL, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, on stalled nuclear-disarmament talks after North Korea rejected several proposals to verify the extent of its arsenal...