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| US President Barack Obama is planning "dramatic reductions" in the country's nuclear arsenal, a senior US administration official has said. | |
| This would come as part of a sweeping policy review designed to prevent the spread of atomic weapons, he said. | |
| The review "will point to dramatic reductions in the stockpile, while maintaining a strong and reliable deterrent", the official said. | |
| He added that it would lead to a greater role for conventional weapons. | |
| Mr Obama is to meet his defence secretary, Robert Gates, later on Monday to discuss the new nuclear strategy. | |
| Officials say thousands of nuclear weapons could be cut, in many cases by retiring weapons that are now kept in storage. | |
| They say the new strategy will be an important step towards Mr Obama's declared aim of reversing the spread of nuclear weapons and seeking a world without them. | They say the new strategy will be an important step towards Mr Obama's declared aim of reversing the spread of nuclear weapons and seeking a world without them. |
| Last April, Mr Obama outlined his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons in a major speech in Europe. | |
| The US president called for the forging of new partnerships to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, and a global summit on nuclear security, which will take place next month. | |
| The next five-yearly review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is to be held in May. |