carter and brezhnev signed salt two. at that point, each side had as many as 30,000 nuclear weapons. we now each side have about 7,000. that s come down dramatically over the years and steadily downward and all with the treaties that have drawn them down. we have about 1700 that are on, shall we say, fast deployment. hair-trigger, it s called. hair-trigger deployment where the president could launch them on four minutes notice. we need to get those down further and we will under the current treaties if they re still observed going forward. we ll get them down to about 1500. but mind you, that compares with the next-largest country is france with 300. even china haas only about 260 on deployment so we are way, way over any limits of being able to wipe out the entire earth if we had to. what do we need these for and why should any president or president-elect be considering even going back to anything like