By Peter Pry | NewsMax
The liberal mainstream media is all aghast that President-elect Donald Trump is calling for “expanding and modernizing” the U.S. nuclear weapons deterrent; and if necessary winning a new nuclear arms race with Russia.
Even the usually fair and balanced Fox News has for three days (and counting) reported uncritically the view of the Arms Control Association (ACA) that Trump is “irresponsible” and “reckless” — as if the ACA is an objective source of information about the nuclear deterrent.
Fox fails to report that the Arms Control Association is a left-wing lobby dedicated to unilateral nuclear disarmament of the United States.
The public might get the false impression from Fox reporting that the Arms Control Association is part of the U.S. Government and a source of official information. In fact, the ACA is no more to be trusted on matters of national security than Greenpeace or Ploughshares, all of whom want to achieve President Obama’s “world without nuclear weapons” — starting with the United States.
One example of the ACA disinformation reported as fact by Fox is that the nuclear balance between the U.S. and Russia is about equal and comprises many thousands of warheads — 7,100 U.S. versus 7,300 Russian nuclear weapons.
The ACA, Greenpeace, and Ploughshares argue that 7,100 U.S. nuclear weapons is “overkill” so the U.S. can afford to take the lead in making deeper cuts.
But the Arms Control Association’s alleged 7,100 U.S. nuclear weapons is counting weapons in the U.S. stockpile —which includes nuclear weapons retired, warehoused, and awaiting dismantlement. These weapons are not deployed in the operational force, would require months or years to refurbish and make deliverable, and are really no more part of the U.S. nuclear deterrent than obsolete bombers rusting away in the desert.
In fact, the real U.S. nuclear deterrent — comprising weapons that are deployed and operational, meaning they can be promptly used — is 1,367 strategic weapons (fewer than allowed under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) and 200 tactical weapons.
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