Dr. Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History emeritus at the State University of New York/Albany, argues that the U.S. would be much better off today without nuclear weapons. Writing in the Huntington News, Wittner states: "They fail to deter war (which has raged on ceaselessly among nuclear and non-nuclear nations since World War II), they are enormously costly, and—thanks to the nuclear arms race that followed the U.S. nuclear weapons breakthrough of 1945—Americans, for the first time in their history, face the prospect of total annihilation. In addition, the U.S. government has vast superiority over all other countries when it comes to conventional war. " Read the full article.