US Continues to Disarm After Cold War

[Danoff]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-25/nuke-bomb-disassembly/50901152/1

Also, from one of my favorite writers (thanks FK):

Many major news organizations did not even report that last month the final B53 city-buster nuclear bomb was disassembled. Here, the Federation of American Scientists has the details. A vestige of the darkest days of the Cold War, the B53 was a nine-megaton death device, the most powerful U.S. weapon ever built. Its blast yield was about 750 times greater than that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Horrible as the Hiroshima bomb was, many citizens of Hiroshima survived; the B53 was designed to incinerate an entire large city such as Moscow, leaving no one alive. Once the United States had more than 300 of these monstrosities; now all are gone. The equivalent Russian very large nuclear bombs have been disassembled, too.

He refers to this link: http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/10/end-of-the-b53-era.php

He goes on to discuss how this represents a milestone in nuclear disarmament and that even though the US still has many nuclear weapons, it's a small fraction of what we used to have, and many of them are significantly lower yield. It's enough progress to declare the doomsday nuclear holocaust end-of-the-world scenario to be a thing of the past.

I'd like to remind everyone of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and it's signatories. This is progress partly brought on by that treaty and the agreement of many countries (like Iran) not to obtain nuclear weapons. The US is disarming in part because of their agreement to cooperate. This is why everyone should be concerned when countries refuse to live up to their treaties - especially when it comes to nukes.

 

[TankAss95]

That's great news! Hopefully we will face a bright future ahead of us with no wars.
Nuclear threat seems to be much less focused on now than it was 10 years ago. Simple things like this gives hope to many for the future of humanity.

 

[Villain]

Now the trick is to get the Chinese to stop building and storing nukes.