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February 23, 2017

Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in the Big News Network

Read the full article in The Big News Network. 

The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation also issued a statement “correcting Trump’s alternative facts.”

“President Trump’s assertions about nuclear weapons policy conveniently ignore the facts,” former Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), the executive director of the center, said in a statement.

“Every world leader on Earth except for President Trump knows that the United States already has the ‘top of the pack’ nuclear arsenal. No U.S. military leader would trade our nuclear weapons for the Russian stockpile, let alone any other nuclear power’s arsenal.”

Read the full article in The Big News Network. 

Posted in: Center in the News, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Press & In the News on Non-Proliferation, Press & In the News on Nuclear Weapons, Press Room, United States

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