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Obama's budget proposed a large increase in nuclear weapons spending OpposingArgument1 #55782 The latest federal budget request includes a large increase in spending for nuclear weapons. Such an increase contradicts President Obama's speech in Prague last April, during which he seemed to signal a commitment to significant nuclear disarmament.

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Author: Greg Mello, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Cited by: François Dongier 10:03 AM 1 April 2010 GMT
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http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-obama-disarmament-paradox

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The White House is requesting one of the larger increases in warhead spending history. If its request is fully funded, warhead spending would rise 10 percent in a single year, with further increases promised for the future. Los Alamos National Laboratory, the biggest target of the Obama largesse, would see a 22 percent budget increase, its largest since 1944. In particular, funding for a new plutonium "pit" factory complex there would more than double, signaling a commitment to produce new nuclear weapons a decade hence.

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Author: Paul Richter, Tribune Washington Bureau
Cited by: François Dongier 3:04 PM 17 July 2010 GMT
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nuke-report-20100715,0,1912167.story

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A 20-year spending plan from the agency that manages the nuclear arsenal shows that the administration wants to hike nuclear weapons spending to an average of more than $8 billion a year, compared with recent spending levels of $6 billion to $7 billion a year. [...] The increase in nuclear spending has political value for the White House: Administration officials hope it will help win the votes of conservative senators who have reservations about the treaty with Russia.

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