U.S. will reduce nuclear arsenal, but maintain nuclear triad policy
The Department of Defense will maintain its "nuclear triad" even as it reduces its strategic arsenal, a Pentagon official said Jan. 9. The United States will reduce its strategic arsenal from the current level of about 6,000 warheads to between 1,700 and 2,000 weapons by 2012, said J. D. Crouch, the...
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