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How the world's inventory of nuclear weapons grew – then shrunk again

• eesmith 9y ago
  > ... harder to detect and more lethal than ever before. "The Pentagon envisions a new age in which nuclear weapons are back in a big way ... Russia has accelerated a dangerous game that the United States must match, even if the price tag soars above $1.2 trillion," the New York Times reports. There's one thing wrong with that analysis. The US modernization program, with superfuze, has resulted in nuclear weapons which are about three times more lethal than they were 10-20 years ago. It's the US which is playing the dangerous game, forcing Russia back into an arms race in order to ensure retaliation for a US first strike.