A significant majority of experts on the subject agree that "100 hydrogen bombs would suffice to guarentee American deterrence."* As of 2000, the American arsenal stood at 10,000 bombs.
*Dr. Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger
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Overkill being the word that comes to mind here. Of course we all know why such proliferation occurs, the reasons are twofold.
Primarily redundancy is an important threat to one's enemy. It states that, "even if you destroy 90% of my nuclear arsenal with a surprise attack, I still have enough to obliterate you." Second, the capitalist state that is the USA has a vested interest in the business of creating and maintaining nuclear arsenals. What are the perennial big winners in the stock market? Which companies are so attractive that even Canada's pension plan invests in them? The answer of course is weapons manufacturers.
It would be something of a poetic justice if in the end it was our greed that did us in. Of course mutual assured destruction has become a necessary evil in our postwar cynical world, but you have pointed out well the insanity that the nuclear stockpiles of the superpowers has become.
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