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5 Myths About the Bomb and Us

DEC 03, 2007

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021726

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The Washington Post : The Bush administration likes to boast that it has dramatically cut the size of the nation’s nuclear stockpile. Meanwhile, it’s busily trying to shore up congressional support for multibillion-dollar proposals to “modernize” the bristling U.S. arsenal. A world that’s skeptical about the last superpower’s intentions only gets more so when U.S. officials push unconvincing lines about the world’s deadliest weapons. So here are a few myths about the U.S. nuclear posture of which the administration seems particularly fond.
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