By Zhao Minghao

March 30, 2016

"The fourth Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is to be held in Washington DC today. This is US President Barack Obama's final such meeting and Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend it. No matter who is elected to the White House this November, Washington will be confronted with the most complicated and gravest nuclear security challenges since the end of the Cold War.

Although Obama vowed to build a world free from nuclear weapons in 2009, it's the US itself that is launching a large-scale upgrade of its nuclear arsenals. According to an Obama administration plan, Washington will spend up to $1 trillion consolidating its superiority in nuclear weapons, which will enable the addition of 12 nuclear-armed submarines and hundreds of upgraded nukes."

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