The United States currently has 2,100 deployed strategic warheads, and Russia 2,600. The new treaty negotiated by President Obama lower the legal limit on deployed strategic warheads to 1,550 each from the 2,200 allowed as of 2012. It would lower the limit on launchers to 800 from the 1,600 now permitted. Nuclear-armed missiles and heavy bombers would be capped at 700 each. Each one of those weapons can kill hundreds of people. It seems so silly to spend billions of dollars guarding those weapons. But this it just the supply for the major nations of the world. According to the April 8, 2010 issue of TIME Magazine, over several decades, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council distributed some 44,000 pounds (20,000 kg) of highly enriched uranium — enough for 800 nuclear weapons — to around 50 countries as diverse as Australia, Jamaica and Vietnam. Chile received HEU from the U.S., France and Britain in the 1970s and ’80s. Although that figure is a drop in the bucket compared with the estimated 4.4 million pounds (2 million kg) of HEU in weapons and storage in the U.S. and Russia., the Atoms for Peace HEU is of particular concern because it is used in civilian reactors that are often poorly guarded and vulnerable to theft. It takes forty pounds of HEU to destroy a city. When Chile had a recent earthquake, the United States was quick to remove the of highly enriched uranium from the country and move it to the United States before any terrorist grounds could get their hands on it.

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