...the end result:
Posted on 04/07/2010 7:31:20 PM PDT by myknowledge
Earlier this year Barack Obama raised eyebrows among supporters when he proposed a double-digit increase in the US nuclear weapons budget. The move, accompanied by a proposed freeze in all US domestic non-defence spending, was seen as flying “in the face of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize”, in the phrase of one excitable British tabloid.
In fact the boost, which would refurbish US nuclear weapons laboratories after years of cuts, was Nobel-esque in its underlying aims. Subsequent events – including the signing in Prague on Thursday by the US president and Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, of a fresh treaty to reduce US and Russian nuclear stockpiles – arguably bear that out.
On a crude political calculus, the inflated budget was intended to lessen pressure from the US nuclear establishment and Republican lawmakers to build a new generation of nuclear weapons by providing the resources to upgrade the stockpile.
(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...
...the end result:
Meanwhile the Chinese and Russians exchange weaponry and build more.
nobama is the woprst president EVER.
nobama is the worst president EVER.
SS-NX-30 Bulava SLBM
JL-2 (Giant Wave 2) SLBM
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