What is really happening in the nuclear world today?
• Billions of dollars are pouring into new technologies in the nuclear weapons labs as the nuclear weapons states modernize their arsenals, especially the US and Russia, but also the poor countries of India and Pakistan. • Nuclear weapons expenditures in the US, under the guise of the Stockpile Stewardship Program, are at levels comparable or higher than those during the Cold War. • India and Pakistan are now openly declared nuclear adversaries, with Kashmir a smoldering potential flashpoint. The use of just one 150-kiloton nuclear bomb over a city like Bombay could cause up to 8,660,000 deaths. • Israel’s suspected arsenal of some 200 nuclear weapons is encouraging other states in the Middle East such as Iran to obtain them, too. • The US government is committed to deploying a national missile defense system, after already abolishing the ABM treaty and hardening Russia’s reliance on its nuclear arsenal. • The decay in Russia’s nuclear command and control, coupled with modern computer
