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The Obama administration is set to release its new nuclear strategy ahead of a major atomic security conference to be hosted by the US next week, according to the White House spokesman.

The review "will point to dramatic reductions in the stockpile, while maintaining a strong and reliable deterrent through the investments that have been made in the budget," the official said. It will also "point to a greater role for conventional weapons in deterrence" and rule out the need to develop low-yield "bunker-buster" nuclear weapons for penetrating underground targets, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The strategy, dubbed the "Nuclear Posture Review," will be published a day before Mr Obama heads to Prague to sign a replacement for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.