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Low numbers : a practical path to deep nuclear reductions /

Title: Low numbers : a practical path to deep nuclear reductions / James M. Acton.
Author: Acton, James M.,
Publication: Washington, DC : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2011.

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[v], 83 pages; 28 cm

Summary

U.S. policy seeks to create the conditions that would allow for deep reductions in nuclear arsenals. This report offers a practical approach to reducing the U.S. and Russian stockpiles to 500 nuclear warheads each and those of other nuclear-armed states to no more than about half that number. This target would require Washington and Moscow to reduce their arsenals by a factor of ten. To achieve these low numbers, the United States should: take a comprehensive approach on arms control; engage with U.S. allies to review security threats and responses; address conventional imbalances; and push for a transparent and multilateral process. As difficult as achieving a multilateral agreement among the five officially recognized nuclear-weapon states will be, it is complicated yet further by the impact of states outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. This process will probably be derailed entirely if Iran is successful in acquiring nuclear weapons. While cutting the number of nuclear weapons so significantly is a formidable challenge, the United States, Russia, and other nations can do much in the short term to advance this goal, as the conclusion of this report highlights. Washington should lead this process to ensure that it at least gets started.

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Practical path to deep nuclear reductions

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-83).

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Downloaded from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace web site <http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/low_numbers.pdf> [Viewed 22 July 2011].

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Contents

Summary -- Introduction -- Bilateral steps : what the United States and Russia can do together -- Engaging allies -- Conventional force balancing : where allies' and adversaries' concerns intersect -- Toward multilateral arms reductions -- Conclusions.

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