Cheryl Rofer over at Whirledview, a nice blog maintained by three persons with excellent national security bona fides, has a sensible post about dropping the total U.S. nuclear arsenal to a few hundred deployed warheads.
I would only quibble with Rofer’s mention that China “holds about 400 nuclear weapons.” As I’ve said, the consensus NGO estimate is too high by a factor of four.
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Full Disclosure: I have a bias in favor of the 1997 National Academies study Rofer cites: two of my dissertation committee members served on the committee.
Also, I couldn’t help grousing about the consensus estimate on Chinese nuclear forces (via the Carnegie Endowment) because I am writing a letter to the editor of Arms Control Today suggesting that number should be revised.