We have enough high quality uranium just sitting on top of enough missiles to destroy humanity 30x over. Let’s use that uranium before digging more up.
We actually were for a couple of decades! It was started under Bush Sr and Gorbechev as the START I and START II agreement.
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During that time the USA and Soviet Union (and then Russia) agreed to dismantle a whole bunch of bombs and de-rate the nuclear material into civilian grade nuclear fuel. For decades the former warheads slowly burned up in American (and other countries) civilian nuclear reactors. It was one of the most hopeful things I ever saw from humanity. Growing up in the 80s we were sure we were going to die from nuclear ICBMs, and here were that same nuclear material safely breaking apart for our civilian electricity.
We actually were for a couple of decades! It was started under Bush Sr and Gorbechev as the START I and START II agreement. source
During that time the USA and Soviet Union (and then Russia) agreed to dismantle a whole bunch of bombs and de-rate the nuclear material into civilian grade nuclear fuel. For decades the former warheads slowly burned up in American (and other countries) civilian nuclear reactors. It was one of the most hopeful things I ever saw from humanity. Growing up in the 80s we were sure we were going to die from nuclear ICBMs, and here were that same nuclear material safely breaking apart for our civilian electricity.
Then Putin happened, and all that stopped.