Administration budget request seeks $7 billion for nuclear weapons programs

As part of a record $3.8 trillion budget proposal, the Obama Administration is asking Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $7 billion over the next five years. Jay Coghlan, director of the Ploughshares-funded Nuclear Watch of New Mexico, talks with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now about what the proposed funding increases mean for President Obama's pledge to cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal and seek a nuclear weapon-free world. The proposal includes large funding increases for a new plutonium production facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico.   Watch the interview below: