Interviewed in Politico, former Vice President Cheney warned of a “high probability” of an attempted nuclear or biological attack as a consequence of closing Guantanamo and reversing other Bush-era policies. Joe Cirincione argued instead that “Bush-Cheney policies increased this threat, while efforts to prevent [terrorists] from getting nuclear weapons withered from lack of funding.” Brian Finlay of the Stimson Center [2] agreed, noting that under Bush, U.S. government spending on preventing proliferation remained “largely static.”
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[1] https://www.ploughshares.org/file/211
[2] http://www.stimson.org
[3] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18473.html