WASHINGTON – We are rightly mourning the horrific killings in Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School and discussing the threats posed by semiautomatic rifles.
Yet, on another front, the United States is moving ahead with plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on nuclear weapons — an even more destructive force — with no serious public discussion.
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