The Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act of 2012 will: • Cut the current fleet of nuclear submarines from 12 operational at sea to eight operational at sea ($3 billion savings) • Delay the purchase of new nuclear submarines ($17 billion savings) • Reduce the number of ICBMs ($6 billion savings) • End the nuclear missions of air bombers (up to $17 billion savings) • Delay new bomber program ($18 billion savings) • Cancel new, wasteful nuclear weapons facilities ($15 billion savings)
Time Feb 1, 2013: "Hizballah is not Israel’s only concern – or perhaps even the most worrying. Details of the Israeli strikes make clear the risk posed by fundamentalist militants sprinkled among the variegated rebel forces fighting to depose Assad. The jihadists are overwhelmingly home-grown Sunni militants but also include foreigners drawn to the fight from across the Muslim world. Loosely organized into several fighting groups, some fighters embrace the almost nihilist ideology associated with al-Qaeda." "One Western intelligence official told TIME the U.S. military was poised to carry out similar airstrikes around Aleppo if rebels threaten to take sites associated with weapons of mass destruction in that region."
Among other things, if the United States pressured Burma it would be at odd with India and China, both of which trade with Burma. Once again, a nascent nuclear-weapons program is used as an implement with which to bludgeon states when it serves our purpose such as Iran. But when dealing with it puts the United States at odd with states that it doesn't wish to alienate (further, in the case of China), it's all too willing to turn a blind eye to its nuclear program. Burma no doubt banks on that." Russ Wellen 25 oktober
In 1996 the United Nations General Assembly finally opened the test ban treaty for signing and ratification. But ... : every one of the 44 “nuclear technology holder states” must sign and ratify it. As of today, 35 have done so, including Russia, France a
"The New START treaty is in the bag, approved by the US Congress and Russian Duma." Hans M Kristensen : "But the treaty does not, as the New York Times report mistakenly states, “require the United States and Russia to reduce their nuclear arsenals…to 1,5
By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Apr 23, 2010 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading T
Reuters 15 april 2010 av Jim Wolf Usas antiballistiska missilsystem ska år 2018 täcka hela Europa, sa en tjänsteman vid Pentagon och utmålade ett ambitiöst mål för försvaret av ett upplevt hot utifrån Iran. ”Ett hundra procent,” sa Bradley Roberts, vid fö
Publicerad 26 juni 2002 Studsvik AB har tillsammans med Washington Group International Inc, WGI, startat ett amerikanskt bolag för att bearbeta federalt kärnavfall. Det nybildade bolaget heter Thor Treatment Technologies och ägare är Studsviks dotterbola
Aug 2009 article by Elaine Grossman, final para: "Without clear direction from Obama, now president, "we essentially signal [to the world] that the president's nuclear elimination pledge is just another ultimate goal and not different from what any other
I maj 2006 sade den amerikanske FN-ambassadören, John Bolton: "Huvudsaken är att Ryssland och Kina är ense om att detta [Irans kärnforskning] är ett hot mot internationell fred och säkerhet enligt kapitel VII." Kapitel VII ("åtgärder i samband med hot mot
Ever since President Barack Obama promised to significantly scale back the Yucca Mountain budget this year, the question has been a simple one: Now what? Artcle by Lisa Mascaro, Las Vegas Sun
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