The US and Russia have some distance to go in order to match the low numbers--200-250 missiles, 400-500 strategic warheads--proposed during the Cold War. Even those numbers are far from abolition, although much closer than the thousands of missile and nuclear warheads deployed during the height of the arms race. Moving toward zero will be prolonged and complex, involving arms control negotiations with other nuclear states. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.