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Nuclear weapons: Explosion over Bikini Atoll Photograph: U.S. Department of Energy-Nevada/Corbis

Latest data on how many nuclear weapons there are in the world shows that – even with some being dismantled – there are still 23,574. So between the US, Russian, China, North Korea and the other nuclear powers, we can be destroyed many times over
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Counting nuclear weapons is a bit like counting votes – a lot depends on who is doing the counting, and how.

The disarmament treaty currently being negotiated between the US and Russia applies to deployed strategic warheads, along with their delivery systems, but that leaves out most of the weapons both countries are sitting on.

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Americans, particularly ones from the middle class, need to realize that there are no core entitlements imparted by their government representatives, nor any other sources. They have none and should adjust their expectations accordingly.

If the U.S. populace somehow imagines that its members are viewed any differently than any other populations across the world that are used to produce maximal profits for the top economic class, there’s a rude awakening in store ahead. Further, most legislators simply do not care whether middle and lower class interests are or aren’t well served as long as they, themselves, can somehow make out well in the times ahead.

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U.S. soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade take position next to Sari Ghundi village as they patrol near the Pakistani border in Afghanistan.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/6016544/Japans-Happiness-Party-plans-to-attack-North-Korea.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6793173.ece

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