American Views on Nukes

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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.

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Rasmussen Reports has its own numbers:

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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.

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