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Last week at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, U.S. President George Bush Jr. committed to freeing the world from the threat of nuclear disasters. But just how committed is America to the elimination of nuclear threats facing the world today? To help answer this question Forget Magazine offers some interesting facts about the historical progress of nuclear programs in the U.S.

1. The Nuclear Age began in July 1945 when the U.S. tested the first nuclear bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

2. 1953 Catch phrase for U.S. nuclear power programme: 'Atoms for Peace'

3. 1985 Forbes magazine phrase used to describe the U.S. nuclear power programme: 'The largest managerial disaster in business history.'

4. Between 1948 and 1998, more than $66 billion (unadjusted) of U.S. federal money was spent on nuclear energy research and subsidies.

5. June 13, 2002 U.S. withdraws from Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty.

6. Estimated amount of spending on all U.S. nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs in 1998: $35 billion.

7. Number of U.S. stockpiled nuclear weapons in 1993: 11,536

8. Number of U.S. stockpiled nuclear weapons in 2002: 10,640

9. Number of U.S. nuclear weapons waiting to be dismantled in 1993: 5246

10. Number of U.S. nuclear weapons waiting to be dismantled in 2002: 274

11. Amount of money U.S. Senate recently granted to researching the development of 'mini nukes' in 2004: $7.5 million

12. Number of nuclear waste contaminated clean up sites in the U.S.:131

13. Number of acres those clean up sites occupy: > 2 million.

14. In 2001, 104 commercial nuclear generating units were licensed to operate in the U.S., producing only 20 percent of the nation's electric energy consumption.

15. Number of times higher the cost of nuclear electricity is to produce than are other conventional electricity producing sources: > 4

16. Reported number of accidents in U.S. nuclear power plants in 1987: 2,810

17. Maximum amount of liability a U.S. nuclear facility can be held to under the 1957 Price-Anderson Act: $7 billion

18. Estimated cost of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster: > $350 billion

19. Chance of containing significant nuclear core meltdown under current design of active nuclear reactors in the U.S.: 10 %

20. U.S. federal funds committed to nuclear waste disposal in 2005: $880 million

21. Department of Energy estimate of how long it would take to reprocess existing commercial nuclear waste in the U.S.: 118 years

22. Estimated cost of reproducing existing nuclear waste in the U.S.: $280 billion

23. Number of secret emergency facilities built exclusively for use of the U.S. President if he can't bed down at the White House after a nuclear war: > 75

24. Estimated amount of U.S. federal funds spent between October 1, 1992 and October 1, 1995 on nuclear testing activities: $1.2 billion (0 tests)

25. Number of U.S. nuclear bombs lost and never recovered: 11

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