Robert Gates actually said...

Currently, the United States is the only declared nuclear power that is neither modernizing its nuclear arsenal nor has the capability to produce a new nuclear warhead.

Context

Gates highlights the U.S.'s lack of nuclear arsenal modernization compared to other powers.

10/13/2011

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