Lawmaker Urges Transparency on Obama’s Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament Study

Published March 8, 2012 11:24pm ET



In a Politico op-ed today, Congressman Michael Turner (R, Ohio) criticizes the Obama administration’s lack of transparency on its controversial study of future reductions to America’s nuclear deterrent—including one option that would cut the arsenal by 80 percent, down to as few as 300 deployed strategic nuclear warheads. 

Turner, who chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, questions the wisdom of any further nuclear reductions given continuing advances by other nuclear armed states:

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