Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Obama lays our breast bare to our nuclear enemies

With ongoing nuclear weapons development going on in Iran, N. Korea, Russia and god only knows where else, Obama's response has been curious to say the least.  He has reduced spending on antimissile technology.  Reduced military spending in general.  And now, cut the program to insure the reliability of our existing nuclear weapons.  At what point do his actions become treasonous??

Obama Breaks With Gates, Cancels Nuke Program

Obama's new budget plan includes a little-noted sea change in U.S. nuclear policy, and a step towards his vision of a denuclearized world. It provides no funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, created to design a new generation of long-lasting nuclear weapons that don't need to be tested. (The military is worried that a nuclear test moratorium in effect since 1992 might endanger the reliability of an aging US arsenal.) But this spring Obama issued a bold call for a world free of nuclear weapons, and part of that vision entails leading by example. That means halting programs that expand the American nuclear stockpile. For the past two budget years the Democratic Congress has refused to fund the Bush-era program. But Obama's budget kills the National Nuclear Security Administration program once and for all.

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