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What would Kim actually do with his nuclear weapons?
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What would Kim actually do with his nuclear weapons?
If the growing nuclear threats in Asia are not curtailed, U.S. allies, most notably Japan and the Republic of Korea, may have to go nuclear to defend themselves.
This issue of the Nuclear Notebook examines Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which we estimate includes a stockpile of roughly 90 warheads. Israel neither officially confirms nor denies that it possesses nuclear weapons, and our estimate is therefore largely based on calculations of Israel’s stockpile of weapon-grade plutonium and its inventory of operational nuclear-capable delivery systems.
Comes out allegedly in documents. we assume a number of different scenarios and we are always asking the american people, just be on alert, be part of our shared security ourselves. jenna: based on your work, tom, what do you think about that? >> i think the chances of a nuclear attack on the u.s. are low, because we are doing the right things. homeland security is doing the right things. oversight and intelligence is doing the right things. so the probabilities are low. but the consequences are enormously high. a 5kiliton weapon in the world trade center basically kills everybody south of cen...