Carrolade , 20 days ago

If I remember right, we were dismantling a lot of them during the Obama administration, but they’re actually rather expensive to dismantle, since we were trying to recycle the plutonium for use in energy production. Go figure. It was also dependent on treaties Obama negotiated with Putin where we were both shrinking our arsenals.

People tend to forget, but nuclear reduction was a major goal of Obama’s, and he actually made some progress.