Rate of US-Russian nuke disarmament slows
Although the United States and Russia have massively reduced their collective
number of nuclear weapons since the heyday of the Cold War, the rate of that
reduction is slowing, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) warned on
Monday.
Further, these two countries alone continue to account for more
than 90% of the worlds total nuclear arsenal, 15 times the rest of the seven
nuclear weapon states combined.
"The pace of reducing nuclear forces
appears to be slowing compared with the past two decades," Hans M Kristensen,
director of the FAS Nuclear Information Project, said on Monday.
