It's a well known fact that the US has a massive nuclear arsenal -- still very much armed and active today. In light of the recent concerns over Iran's nuclear threat, perhaps we should pause and examine our own nuclear program. Here are some brief notes on its current strength:
See here and here.
Since the end of the cold war, there have been repeated calls for a major standdown of the large US nuclear arsenal.
See here, here, and here's another one.
My questions for you are:
What justifications do we have for having a nuclear force?
Why do we feel entitled to possessing nuclear arms yet we scream that Iran (and other such nations) cannot possess similiar weapons?
If you can find an argument for why we should be so entitled, can you offer any justification as to why we need a nuclear force of this massive size?
Do we really need such a monstrous nuclear arsenal?
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