Politics - US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly....

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Panel: Putin 'Bested' Obama on Arms Treaty
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A panel of arms experts critical of the Obama administration claimed Wednesday that Russia bested the United States in a new treaty designed to reduce the two countries' arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons.

President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last month signed the historic "New START" treaty, the first major nuclear weapons reduction accord in nearly two decades.

http://www.thefoxnation.com/international/2010/05/05/panel-putin-bested-obama-arms-treaty

This was obvious at the time, as Russia's nukes are grossly outdated and the treaty only benefits them, and the last part is a lie. George W. Bush reduced our nuclear stockpile much more than this will.

The treaty obligates the U.S. to reduce (its arsenal). The Russians don't have to do anything. They are there already," Rademaker said, referring to the treaty's lowered ceiling of 1,550 long-range nuclear warheads within seven years.
"Every hard issue in the treaty is favorable to the Russians," he said.