Should the US dismantle its nuclear arsenal?

Question

Iran is being forced to give up its right to peaceful nuclear activity under the NPT. The US, also a signatory, is obliged by the treaty to stop manufacturing nuclear weapons and dismantle those it stocks. Given that the US nuclear arsenal surpasses all nuclear weapons outside of the US combined, and that the NPT is being used to coerce Iran out of nuclear power; shouldn't the US give the example and follow the treaty it seeks to enforce?

http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/npt/text/npt2.htm
excerpts from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)... or check out the whole thing in the link. Iran is proctected under article IV pt 1. The US is committed to disarmament by Article VI. And Article I makes the recent transfer to India illegal.
Article IV 1. ...[Granting] the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination (...)

Article VI

Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.

Answer 1

Yes,it should...
Iran,as every other country who signed the NNPT,has every right to a nuclear program,as long as it is in peaceful purposes...And no one can prove it isn't...

"Declaring their intention to achieve at the earliest possible date the cessation of the nuclear arms race and to undertake effective measures in the direction of nuclear disarmament"(NNPT)

Answer 2

Sorry; I think youi've misread the NPT. We are not required to dismantle our stock and never have been. The NPT is designed to control NEW growth of nuclear powers. We are pleged to look into world disarmament; and we have. Unfortunatly not every one thinks the UN and the NRC can solve the problem yet.

Answer 3

Of course the US should not give up its nuclear weapons, you dope. We will need them to take out Iran! Anybody who believes that an oil-rich, terrorist-supporting nation like Iran is building nuclear plants soley to make the more expensive nuclear power is a fool!

Answer 4

The US has been dismantling missles per a treaty with Russia. We are maintaining the rest as a deterrent against aggression. No, we should not dismantle our arsenal, it is a rough world out there.

Answer 5

No.

NPT is to prevent proliferation to new countries, . And keep the nucleear power among a select group of countries, all of them America's cronies.

In short, All nuclear bombs are evil, unless weilded by America.

Answer 6

OK we should dismantle all guns and weapons. In a prefect world.
The U.S. is not the one going around saying they want to wipe a nation off the map.

I don't know where you are at but like to know the color of the sky in your world.

Answer 7

no, the US should not dismantle its nuclear arsenal. To do so is national suicide.

Answer 8

then how would we fight Iran.

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

Please don't ever run for public office.