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Offline thundley4

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US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
« on: May 04, 2010, 08:25:47 AM »
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.

The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming, and to improve its bargaining position against the prospect of a nuclear Iran.

"We think it is in our national security interest to be as transparent as we can be about the nuclear program of the United States," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters at the United Nations, where she addressed a conference on containing the spread of atomic weapons.
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What is to be gained by telling everyone the exact number of nuclear weapons we possess?  Is this just another example of Lord Zero's cluelessness?

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Re: US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2010, 08:31:35 AM »
Nothing good for us, and yes.

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Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

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