December 18, 2007
HE IS WHO THE LEFT THINKS BILL CLINTON WAS:
Bush orders 'significant reduction' in US nuclear weapons stockpile (The Associated Press, December 18, 2007)
President Bush has approved "a significant reduction" in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, cutting it to less than one-quarter its size at the end of the Cold War, the White House said Tuesday.Posted by Orrin Judd at December 18, 2007 7:04 PMAt the same time, the Energy Department announced plans to consolidate the nuclear weapons complex that maintains warheads and dismantle those no longer needed, saying the current facilities need to be made more efficient and more easily secured and that the larger complex is no longer needed.
"We are reducing our nuclear weapons stockpile to the lowest level consistent with America's national security and our commitments to friends and allies," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
