Comment Re:It is all pork barrel politics (Score 2) 342
The only reasonable thing we can do is reduce the stockpile so we can eradicate humanity only once, instead of ten times and ensure that the weapons are safe (when idle). They may be necessary to prevent nuclear extortion, but we don't have to sink more money into it then necessary.
Unfortunately not. Simply reducing the stockpile isn't enough. A continuous stewardship programme is needed otherwise you'll very soon end up with a workable stockpile of zero, since these things decay over time.
The "kill the world 10 times over" was always hyperbole though. All you need is enough to reliably destroy enough of an enemy that it's never worth them attacking.