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This article juxtaposes both inherent opportunities and dangers in doing a sweeping review of the US nuclear posture, due to be completed by the end of 2001. The author argues that there are numerous reasons to be optimistic, such as the willingness to consider deep cuts in the number of strategic nuclear weapons and to look at the potential for lowering the arsenal’s alert status. However, concerns about how China evolves as a global and regional power or the dissolution of many regions into fractious ethnic and religious conflict will remain.