Richard Garwin works in the field of nuclear weapons design, construction, and testing. He is an advocate for reducing the nuclear weapons stockpile of the United States to 1000 weapons. The US currently maintains about 15,000 nuclear warheads. He has been interviewed on NPR where his candor was very candid.
qouted from the Garwin Archives, http://www.fas.org/rlg/16140840.htm
"And it would be a folly, you notice the word folly, to defend against the nuclear-armed ballistic missile from so-called rogue nations. Again it would be much easier for them, and more reliable if they do not have a much bigger force, if they would use these other delivery means. And so it is totally unbalanced. There is a very careful choreography on the Republican side of how they present this, this threat and a make-believe, without this, create this total vacuum of the discussion of the other threats. And the fact that this is a dangerous world. And the first thing that one should do is, first understand that any nation that uses nuclear weapons against any other nation is going to be wiped out. At least if it uses (nuclear weapons) against nuclear powers. But if it uses them against non-nuclear powers it is going to have terrible problems as a result. Because of the response."
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