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On the recordApril 14, 2010
Assurance to our enemies. But the second thing was the idea that somehow we are going to move toward this world without nukes, and the way we are going to do it is to reduce not only our number of nuclear weapons but reduce our development or deployment of nuclear weapons. I mean, it sounds so good on the surface, but let's just take this apart a little bit. Let's just say, you have got America now. We have a bunch of nuclear weapons, and we just say, hey, this is such a great idea. We are just going to get rid of all our nukes, and we are not going to develop any. Or we are going to get rid of a certain percentage of them, and we are not going to develop any new ones, which is what this treaty is supposed to do. My question is, how is this going to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world?
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker is discussing the implications of reducing nuclear weapons and the potential effects on global security.

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