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Over $60 billion for USA’s new nuclear weapons spending

U.S. nuclear arms modernization plan misguided: scientists’ group By David Alexander WASHINGTON | Thu Oct 17, 2013 (Reuters) – An Obama administration plan to spend $60 billion over the next 25 years to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal is misguided and violates the spirit of its pledge not to develop new nuclear arms, a Union of Concerned Scientists report said on Thursday.

The 81-page report by the independent nonprofit said the $60 billion for upgrading warheads is a fraction of what Washington plans to spend on its nuclear deterrent in the coming decades, on top of billions for new manufacturing facilities and billions more for delivery systems like submarines.

The spending comes despite President Barack Obama’sendorsement of the goal of a world without nuclear weapons and his negotiation of the “New START” treaty with Russia, which committed the former Cold War rivals to reducing deployed strategic nuclear weapons to 1,550 each by 2018…….

The 81-page report by the independent nonprofit said the $60

October 18, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war