When big spending Barrack Obama left the White House the national security budget properly measured totaled a staggering $822 billion. That included $600 billion for defense, $46 billion for security assistance and international operations and $177 billion for veterans compensation and services, which reflects the deferred cost of prior wars.
How the Bipartisan War Party Fostered Fiscal Ruin
Tag: Nuclear Arms Race
[2019] America’s Dark History of Killing Its Own Troops With Cluster Munitions
The weapons are notorious for their effects on civilians. But five years of reporting and hundreds of interviews have revealed they’ve also killed and wounded scores of Americans.
America’s Dark History of Killing Its Own Troops With Cluster Munitions
‘A Terrifying Document’: Critics Say Biden Nuclear Policy Makes the World More Dangerous 🤯
“This Nuclear Posture Review continues decades of nuclear overkill, doubles down on needless weapons programs, and fails to advance overdue reforms.”
‘A Terrifying Document’: Critics Say Biden Nuclear Policy Makes the World More Dangerous
Biden and Bennett Renew Agreement on Israel’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
Since Nixon, US presidents have agreed not to push Israel to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Biden and Bennett Renew Agreement on Israel’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
What I Learned About Governments from Researching Classified Documents
Donald Trump’s illegal retention of classified U.S. government records reminded me that I have been reading these kinds of sensitive official files―and learning from them―for decades.
What I Learned About Governments from Researching Classified Documents
‘Ban the Bomb’ becomes international law, but U.S. doesn’t sign on
In refusing to extend New START, the US puts the world on the path of collective suicide
Statements by the US chief arms control envoy make it clear the US is committed to a nuclear arms race free of the encumbrance of the New START treaty. However, it’s a race the US cannot win, and the world will not survive.
In refusing to extend New START, the US puts the world on the path of collective suicide
How Not to Blunder Into a Nuclear War
This risk of nuclear war by accident is not a theoretical scenario. Perry and Collina note that the United States has experienced three major false alarms, and Russia has had two. For example, on June 3, 1980, the U.S. received a warning that Soviet submarines had launched 220 nuclear-armed missiles at the United States, a figure later presumed to be 2,200 missiles – an all-out attack. Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski estimated that he had three minutes to decide whether to tell the president of the potential attack, and that the president would then have four minutes to make a decision on whether to launch U.S. weapons. Just as Brzezinski was about to call the president, it was determined that it was a false alarm. It was later learned that it was the result of a malfunction of a 46-cent computer chip embedded in a communications device.
How Not to Blunder Into a Nuclear War
U.S. prepared to spend Russia, China ‘into oblivion’ to win nuclear arms race: U.S. envoy
https://twitter.com/ajitxsingh/status/1263840434343702529?s=20
The US government “can’t afford” to provide Americans with healthcare, PPE, or more than $1200 to survive a global pandemic, but it wants you to know that it is prepared to spend Russia and China “into oblivion” in order to win a new nuclear arms race.
U.S. prepared to spend Russia, China ‘into oblivion’ to win nuclear arms race: U.S. envoy
China will not join so-called China-U.S.-Russia arms control negotiations
“China is committed to the path of peaceful development and has not and will not participate in any form of arms race,” according to Zhao
— Read on english.pladaily.com.cn/view/2020-03/07/content_9761833.htm
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