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Nuclear budget cuts gaining momentum
Just months ago, nuclear weapons spending was considered untouchable. Now, rumblings from within the Pentagon indicate that the nuclear budget may be up next in the search for savings. When the Pentagon starts talking cuts, you know things are serious. Read more »
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Posted by Mary Kaszynski on November 17, 2011
NATO, Carnegie Endowment, Defense Secretary, Department of Defense, Dyad, House Armed Services Committee, James Cartwright, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Nuclear Budget, Robert Gates, 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
Brown Journal of World Affairs, cuts, Department of Defense, Financial Times, Joe Cirincione, Nuclear Weapons, Robert Gates