The first step under the Global Zero plan would reduce those arsenals to 1,000 warheads each by 2018, and to just 500 warheads each by 2021. At the same time, the world’s other nuclear powers would freeze their nuclear stockpiles until 2018, followed by proportional reductions until 2021.
Global Zero’s cuts would be even deeper than they sound, because they would include warheads not counted under the current START 1 treaty. The currently uncounted weapons include those in storage and so-called tactical nuclear weapons, designed to be used on the battlefield rather than placed on intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Ex-US diplomat: Russia balks at zero nuke talks
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