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W. Todd Akin: So we are reducing weapons, but these other nations are going to want to increase, so that doesn't really compute with…

On the recordApril 14, 2010
So we are reducing weapons, but these other nations are going to want to increase, so that doesn't really compute with the logic of this thing. Now let's go to the next class of nations, third-world nations, maybe some of them that are more likely to be our opponents, adversaries, or troublemakers. Now we tell them we are going to reduce our number of nukes and our development of new things. What is their logical response to that? Well, let's see, they say, well, we could never whip them in conventional forces, so we have got to find some other way.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri
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Apr 14, 2010

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The speaker discusses the implications of the U.S. reducing its nuclear arsenal on global security.

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