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NATO to spend up big on nuclear weapons security

safety-symbol-SmAnalyst: NATO Poised to Ramp Up Nuclear-Arms Security Spending National Journal By  12 Mar 14,  An issue expert says NATO is preparing a major increase in spending to protect U.S. nuclear arms fielded in allied European states.

The U.S. Defense Department’s fiscal 2015 budget proposal calls for $154 million to bolster defenses at military installations spread across Belgium, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands. That amount would come in addition to $80 million the alliance has spent in the last 14 years to protect nuclear arms in the six European nations, says a Tuesday report by Hans Kristensen, who heads the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.

Kristensen said more than three-fourths of the security spending to date took place in 2011 and 2012, after an Air Force panel determined that defenses at most U.S. nuclear-arms facilities in Europe did not meet Pentagon standards.

  Expenditures in those two years appears to have been partly in response to findings by the Air Force Blue Ribbon Review, Kristensen said…….http://www.nationaljournal.com/global-security-newswire/analyst-nato-poised-to-ramp-up-nuclear-arms-security-spending-20140312

March 13, 2014 - Posted by | EUROPE, weapons and war

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