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VIDEO: More funding for USA’s nuclear weapons!

VIDEO Obama increases nuclear arms funding: Mark Mason, Press TV 11 April 13,  An analyst says a true push for nuclear disarmament is in the international arena, but it won’t come from a US government, which is expanding nuclear terror.

In the background of this US president Obama wants more funds to modernize the country’s nuclear weapons, construct a uranium processing facility in Tennessee, and to sustain existing stockpiles. Obama is requesting 7.9 billion dollars for this purpose, which seems to run counter to the nuclear non-proliferation promotion that Obama led to achieve a Nobel peace prize in 2009. This development also calls into question the existing agreement with Russia that both sides should cut their nuclear arsenal to 1,500 by 2018. The current stockpile is assumed to exceed 5,000. 

Press TV has interviewed Mark Mason, professor and political activist from Oakland about this issue. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview. 

Press TV: The existing US nuclear weapons can destroy the Earth several times. Why is it that President Obama is proposing for more funding to modernize the country’s existing nuclear weapons, especially at a time of austerity? 

Mason: This is in keeping with the previous five years almost of his, I guess you would call it, his administration – it’s hardly even a government anymore. 

We have the military industrial complex; there’s money involved – Cash that goes to the Pentagon – the Pentagon is worried about the budget; there are nuclear arms manufacturers- General Electric and others that benefit enormously from really the expansion of nuclear terror around the world……..
we have an international community that’s going to hopefully press forward for nuclear disarmament. It won’t come from the United States government…… http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/11/297732/obama-derails-nuclear-nonproliferation/

April 12, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual