Levin's predecessor as Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, Sam Nunn (now working for the Nuclear Threat Institute, a creature of the inveterate U.S.-disarmer Ted Turner).
Even George Bush, no dewy-eyed disarmer, negotiated cuts down to 1, 700-2, 200 apiece by 2012 (from the 6, 000 agreed upon after the cold war had ended) and was ready to go lower.