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President Barack Obama said that a forthcoming review of the US nuclear posture would reduce the number and role of nuclear weapons in Washington’s national security strategy. In addition, we will seek to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and negotiate a treaty to end the production of fissile material for use in nuclear weapons, Obama said in a statement marking the 40th anniversary of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. A 1999 vote on US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty fell 19 votes short of the 67 needed for approval by the Senate, which at the time was...

European NATO allies are to urge President Barack Obama to remove all remaining US nuclear weapons from European soil, as domestic pressure grows to rid its soil of outdated Cold War-era aerial bombs. Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Norway will call "in the coming weeks" for more than 200 American warheads, mostly stocked in Italy and Turkey, to be taken back, a spokesman for Prime Minister Yves Leterme told AFP. A joint proposal by the five NATO members will demand "that nuclear arms on European soil belonging to other NATO member states are removed," Dominique Dehaene said. Only the...

Designations Of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Copyright © 2001 Andreas Parsch 1 Designation System2 List of Weapons3 Sources 1 Designation System All U.S. nuclear weapons (missile warheads, free-fall bombs, artillery shells, etc.) are numbered in a single, consecutive series. The numbers are assigned by the organization controlling the design and manufacture of nuclear weapons. From 1946 to 1974, this was the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). In 1974, the AEC was abolished and its tasks being taken over by the newly formed Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 1977, the Department of Energy (DOE) was founded and took over, among many other things, the...