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US Senators Slam Pentagon's Leaked Report Over Potential Risks of Nuclear War

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US Senators Slam Pentagon's Leaked Report Over Potential Risks of Nuclear War

04:49 GMT 30.01.2018 (Updated: 11:59 GMT 06.08.2022)

© AP Photo / Dave CaulkinMarch 3, 2002 file photo shows a member of the public watching a US Air Force B 52 bomber arriving at RAF Fairford in western England. Pushing his vision of a nuclear weapons-free world, President Barack Obama returned to Prague on Thursday, April 8, 2010 to sign a pivotal treaty aimed at sharply paring U.S. and Russian arsenals — and repairing soured relations between the nations. With that, they will commit their nations to slash the number of strategic nuclear warheads by one-third and more than halve the number of missiles, submarines and bombers carrying them, pending ratification by their legislatures. The new treaty will shrink those warheads to 1,550 over seven years. That still allows for mutual destruction several times over. But it will send a strong signal that Russia and the U.S., which between them own more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, are serious about disarmament.

March 3, 2002 file photo shows a member of the public watching a US Air Force B 52 bomber arriving at RAF Fairford in western England. Pushing his vision of a nuclear weapons-free world, President Barack Obama returned to Prague on Thursday, April 8, 2010 to sign a pivotal treaty aimed at sharply paring U.S. and Russian arsenals — and repairing soured relations between the nations. With that, they will commit their nations to slash the number of strategic nuclear warheads by one-third and more than halve the number of missiles, submarines and bombers carrying them, pending ratification by their legislatures. The new treaty will shrink those warheads to 1,550 over seven years. That still allows for mutual destruction several times over. But it will send a strong signal that Russia and the U.S., which between them own more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, are serious about disarmament. - Sputnik International

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - More than a dozen of US senators in a letter warned President Donald Trump that the administration’s policies detailed in a leaked Defense Department report will likely lead to the outbreak of a nuclear war.

"The sole purpose of our nuclear arsenal should be to deter nuclear attack against the United States, our allies and partners," the letter signed by 16 senators said on Monday. "However, the reported policies outlined in your forthcoming Nuclear Posture Review increase the risk of a nuclear arms race and raise the real possibility of nuclear conflict."

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The senators noted in the letter that the $1.7 trillion cost to modernize the US nuclear triad would siphon off funding needed to upgrade and maintain conventional forces.

They also chastised Trump for ignoring the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty's requirement to strive for nuclear disarmament.

The letter was signed by 16 senators including Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders.