On February 8, 2012, Congressman Edward Markey introduced the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act, which would cut $100 billion from the U.S. nuclear weapons budget over the next ten years.  As the U.S. government currently possesses over five thousand nuclear weapons (which can destroy the world five times over) and is planning to spend over $600 billion on nuclear weapons modernization in the next decade, passage of the SANE Act makes a lot of sense.