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$640 Billion for Nuclear Weapons and Related Programs
  On the radar: Assessing the nuclear budget; Updated Iran timeline; Replacing the Ohio; Degraded confidence for UPF; Big trouble for big laser; Lingering myth from the Cuban Missile Crisis; BMD cooperation with Russia; and South, that’s right, South Korea increasing missile ranges.   Read more »
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Posted on October 9, 2012
When the Nuclear Budget Binge Ended
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
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A Credible Number, A Needed Debate
There is no official number that tells American citizens how much our government is spending on nuclear weapons. In fact, we are not even precisely sure how many nuclear weapons we have. What we do know is that we spend way too much on the nuclear arsenal - programs that were designed for the Cold War and that many military leaders and members of Congress from both parties agree no longer meet our needs. As the administration noted in its 2010 Nuclear Posture Review: Read more »
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Posted by Joe Cirincione on November 30, 2011
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