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You are here: Home / Issue Center / HASC Bill Shows GOP Stuck in Cold War; Reduce SSBN-X, Nukes

May 21, 2012

HASC Bill Shows GOP Stuck in Cold War; Reduce SSBN-X, Nukes

by Robert G. Gard and Kingston Reif

Originally published in AOL Defense on May 21, 2012.

Article summary below; read the full text online.

There is broad bipartisan agreement that few national security issues are as critical as how to deal with America’s crippling debt. This means we should spend scarce dollars on the weapons we need for current threats and not on programs with diminishing strategic relevance.

Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, however, apparently are still stuck in the Cold War.

Last week the House passed an annual bill authorizing spending on US national defense activities that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in unneeded funding for nuclear weapons programs that US military leaders did not ask for and House appropriators do not support. In addition, the legislation includes provisions that would restrict and perhaps even block the Pentagon’s ability to implement the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) if Congress doesn’t approve this unnecessary spending.

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