THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release July 8, 1998
PRESS BRIEFING BY
MIKE MCCURRY
The Briefing Room
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Q Mike, Britain announced today that it's cutting its
submarine-based nuclear warheads by half. Do you have any reaction
to that? Does that fit with the climate of nonproliferation that the
U.S. has been trying to engender with a view of South Asia?
MR. MCCURRY: Let me kick over to the NSC more specific
response to that, but as a general matter, we are aware that nation
states and other nuclear powers are adjusting their forces consistent
with whether the realities of the post-Cold War era. And just as
we're seeking to work to reduce our own inventory of nuclear weapons
in tandem with reductions that are occurring elsewhere in the world,
specifically in the Russian Federation, there are realignments
occurring as people readjust their arsenals and think through the
realities of this new world we live in. It's a hopeful world that we
live in, and the readjustment of force posture based on the realities
of this world is something that reflects the benevolent environment
we find ourselves in at the end of the Cold War.
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