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Mike Gravel on nuclear weapons

JAN 02, 2008

Following statements by Mike Gravel at public events:

Gavel believes in cutting the US nuclear arsenal from 11,000 warheads to a couple of hundred (November 2006)

Gravel has stated that he thinks programs such as the reliable replacement warhead program is expanding US nuclear capability (August 2007) and that the US is the greatest violator of the non-proliferation treaty (April 2007).

Gravel has also publicly stated that threatening countries with nuclear weapons is the basis of an immoral foreign policy (April 2007).

He is in favor of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Paul Guinnessy, pguinnes@aip.org

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