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Weapons around the world

03 Aug 2005
The US possesses just over 10,000 nuclear weapons but plans to reduce this number by about 50% by 20

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Jon Wolfsthal is deputy director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, e-mail jwolfsthal@ carnegieendowment.org
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