US President Barack Obama is planning “dramatic reductions” in the country’s nuclear arsenal, a senior US administration official has said.
This would come as part of a sweeping policy review designed to prevent the spread of atomic weapons, he said.
He added that the new strategy will point to a greater role for conventional weapons.
Mr Obama is to meet his Defence Secretary Robert Gates later on Monday to discuss the new nuclear strategy.
The review “will point to dramatic reductions in the stockpile, while maintaining a strong and reliable deterrent”, the official said.
He said the review would go further than previous reviews in “embracing the aims of non-proliferation. ”
Officials say thousands of nuclear weapons could be cut, in many cases by retiring weapons that are now kept in storage.
They say the new strategy will be an important step towards Mr Obama’s declared aim of reversing the spread of nuclear weapons and seeking a world without them.
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