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Nuclear weapons are the ultimate evil. They are the invention that humanity wishes it could un-invent. Their existence puts the entire world at risk. There are several attempts to limit nuclear weapons technology, testing, and possession, but all have fallen sh ....

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.... attack if we have reason to believe that we are under a nuclear attack (Krieger, pdd60.html). Nuclear weapons remain at the core of our defense strategy. The United States is not the only culprit. Today, roughly 52,000 nuclear warheads exist (Kressley). The large number of nuclear weapons is a huge risk to the entire planet. Many argue that there cannot be a nuclear-free world. They claim that you cannot un-invent something that has become the cornerstone of our defense for over 50 years. “The elimination of nuclear weapons is called utopia by people who forget that for so many decades the end of the Cold War was considered utopia,” ( ....