Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
The U.S. and other world powers, collectively known as the P5+1, are on the brink of making a historic deal to ensure Iran doesn’t get a nuclear bomb. Members of Congress are choosing sides now between allowing the diplomatic talks to continue to progress and taking action that could derail the talks.
“The current and future nuclear security environment requires the United States and its allies and partners to develop more robust nonproliferation, verification and monitoring capabilities.
President Obama’s ardent opposition to new congressional trigger sanctions on Iran is making headlines.
Proponents of nuclear weapons tend to downplay the number of nuclear weapons the United States possesses to forward their ‘we don’t have nukes to spare’ agenda. While it is true that according to the parameters of the New START treaty the US has 1,642 deployed nuclear warheads, this figure does not take into consideration the thousands of other nuclear weapons in our stockpile or awaiting dismantlement.
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