Reducing Nuclear Warheads

The solution is to cut the number of nuclear warheads the United States have in their arsenal. To reduce the number of nukes an effective way would be to close down nuclear silos, which are mostly located in the mid-west of the United States. Many people argue that disposing of nuclear weapons isn’t cost affected and is to expensive. These counterpoints led to the discussion of disarming the plutonium Pu-239 and uranium U-235 cores that set the explosion in the bombs. James Conca from Forbes wrote an article. He said due to the agreement from the Cold War between the United States and Russia, each country has to get rid of a surplus of 150,000 pounds of plutonium. There are two ways to get rid of plutonium, let it sit and decay for thousands of years, or bind it with uranium and create mix oxide fuel “MOX.” MOX can be used in nuclear reactors to create energy. Reducing the number of nukes can be costly, but the outcome could provide energy.
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The silos house the stockpile of warheads and is the cite where nuclear missiles would be launched from. A counterpoint to this solution of reducing nuclear warheads would be lawmakers from the states of silos would fight any legislation that would try to close down their silos. C-Span documented an hearing on their website on a bill that was written to Congress to keep the nuclear silos in Montana open until 2020. Steve Daines, an representative for the state of Montana, made a amendment for that bill. The amendment was called Daines Amendment 6, and it would allow the silos to stay open forever. Despite any orders from the pentagon to close the silo down. Daines of Montana amendment no. 6 was passed with the votes of 222 to 196. The senate could pass legislation that could make changes to Daines amendment no. 6, but the American people would need to forces the government’s hand to make those