Poll on U.S. views on nuclear weapons.
Angus Reid surveys U.S. opinion on nuclear weapons:
In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,005 American adults, 61 per cent of respondents would endorse a global agreement that would force all nuclear-armed countries to eliminate their arsenals.Only 22 per cent of Americans agree with the notion that nuclear weapons are â??morally wrongâ? and the United States should get rid of its arsenal regardless of what other nations do.
Two-in-five respondents (43%) think that the U.S. is in a strategically sound position having nuclear arms and it is not in the countryâ??s best interest to participate in international treaties that would reduce or eliminate its arsenal.
More than two-thirds of Americans would like the U.S. government to pursue the goal of either eliminating nuclear armament globally (36%) or reducing it considerably (35%). Only 12 per cent of respondents say the government should seek to maintain the current amount of nuclear weapons in the world, and a mere six per cent think the U.S. should develop new weapons.
Rasmussen Reports has its own numbers:
Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters oppose President Obamaâ??s new policy prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons in response to chemical or biological attacks on the United States.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 25% of voters agree with the presidentâ??s decision to rule out a nuclear response if a non-nuclear country attacks America with chemical or biological weapons. Another 20% are undecided.
Only 31% favor a reduction in the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Fifty-three percent (53%) oppose any such reduction. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.
