(WASHINGTON) – The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation today criticized the North Korean announcement of a rocket test as a “clear violation” of previous agreements.
Understatement of the Day: Nuclear Weapons Funding Edition
“Realistically,” in that the Obama nuclear spending pledge was made “nine months before the Budget Control Act became law, falling 4 percent short of the $7.9 billion target is reasonable given the fiscal reality facing us today.”
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), Chairman of the Senate Strategic Forces Subcommittee, March 14, 2012.
For more background on Republican criticisms of the FY 2013 request for nuclear weapons programs, see here. We’ll have a more detailed response to the recent Republican Policy Committee memo on nuclear weapons funding and the text of Rep. Michael Turner’s (R-OH) “Maintaining the President’s Commitment to our Nuclear Deterrent and National Security Act of 2012” soon.
"When less is not more"
My March Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists column is now online and I tried to tackle the issue of whether it makes sense for the U.S. to place greater emphasis on counterforce (i.e. targeting an adversary’s leadership and strategic forces) in its nucl…
Quote of the Day: More on SSBN(X) Trade-Offs Edition
The Defense Department must make “tough” cuts to major investments to accommodate the huge cost of replacing Ohio-class submarines that provide nuclear deterrence worldwide, according to Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale.There are no easy solutions to t…
Global Security Newswire Quotes Kingston Reif
Legislative Quagmire Grips Nuclear Security Pacts in U.S. By Diane Barnes Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON — Just weeks before the second Global Nuclear Security Summit convenes in South Korea, the United States still has not enacted a law critical to ratifying what the Obama administration at the first summit called “the two key international […]
