U.S. Nuclear Warheads Set to Get a Facelift

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 16:30 in Mathematics & Economics

When he took office in 2009, US President Barack Obama bolstered efforts to secure nuclear materials around the globe. That spring, speaking in Prague, he said that he would push Congress to ratify a long-pending treaty to ban nuclear testing. By 2010, he had reached an agreement with Russia to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in both countries’ arsenals to historic lows. [More]

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