Obama: ‘My Preference Is that We Would Bring Down Further Our Nuclear Arsenal’

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BARACK OBAMA: "Here's the balance that we've had to strike. We have a nuclear stockpile. We have to make sure it is safe and reliable. And after the there S.T.A.R.T. Treaty with Russia, we have brought down the number of weapons that are active. But we have to make sure that they're up to date. That their command and control systems that might have been developed a while ago are up to snuff given all the technology that has changed since that time. And we have to make sure that our deternls continues to work. So even as we brought down the number of weapons that we have, I've wanted to make sure that what we do retain, functions. That it is not subject to a cyber intrusion. That there's sufficient confidence in the system that we don't create destabilizing activity. My preference is that would it bring down further our nuclear arsenal."