Programs to deploy modern weapons also are being cut back.
The war ended as it had begun, without American nuclear weapons deployed near battle.
Several world governments deployed nuclear weapons in an attempt to stop the threat until they fell.
But neither seems ready to consider an agreement not to deploy nuclear weapons, especially missiles.
The important exception was his 1998 decision to test and deploy nuclear weapons, which almost immediately led Pakistan to do the same.
He explicitly ruled out the possibility of nuclear weapons being deployed.
It is estimated that the United States has 11,000 such weapons deployed.
Almost all of the nuclear weapons deployed today use the thermonuclear design because it is more efficient.
Nuclear weapons deployed by terrorists would be the ultimate means of mass devastation.
The external powers would commit themselves not to deploy nuclear weapons in Korea.