Nuclear Weapons

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Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

If you are asking in a purely esoteric "Would you want a pony?" mode: Sure. If it guarranteed a nuclear weapon free world, I would be glad to be rid of our nuclear weapons. Even without nuclear weapons, the US has the most powerful military in the world by a large margin (I believe this to be true - further, without nukes, we could divert those expenses into strengthening our conventional forces even more).

As a practical matter, it's just not going to happen b/c no such guarrantee could ever be given.

I'm not 100% positive but I don't think we are actually building more nuks so our only cost now is keeping up the ones we allready have. I belive more money is spent on finding way to distroy nukes fired at us rather tan build new ones.