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Chris Wright Warns U.S. 'Lost Our Mojo' In Modernizing Nuclear Arsenal After The Cold War

Published | Video Starts at 01:21

We can never be complacent or let our guard down in maintaining security of the United States of America. At the end of the Cold War, I think we're the only of the major power that really stopped building new weapons, designing and innovating. We maintained a safe stockpile all throughout it, but we lost our mojo a bit in designing new weapons and modernizing our weapons. (01:21–01:30)

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Asserts that the U.S. was the only major power to stop building new weapons after the Cold War.

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