The White House announced yesterday that President George W. Bush has decided to reduce the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile by an additional 15 percent by 2012.
The new retirements come on top of those already undertaken over the past three years. In 2004, Bush said the United States would cut its arsenal — which includes a vast number of warheads in storage — in half by 2012.
However, the nuclear agency has retired weapons much more swiftly than anticipated and… more