Ploughshares Blog: cuts

Washington is slowly moving toward tightening budgets and being smarter with its security dollars. The President’s budget request, released yesterday, showed that spending smarter means trimming excessive spending on Cold War-era nuclear weapons systems. Read more »

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Posted by Ben Loehrke on February 14, 2012

Filed in: budget, CMRR, cuts, Debt, Nuclear Budget, Policy Guidance, President Obama, SSBNX, Triad

Cutting Where It Counts

In January, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned us that government’s fiscal management might at some point become one of the nation’s largest threats to national security: Read more »

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Posted by Margaret Swink on August 9, 2011

Filed in: Brown Journal of World Affairs, cuts, Department of Defense, Financial Times, Joe Cirincione, Nuclear Weapons, Robert Gates

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