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How would you spend $640 Billion?
It's not easy to know how much our nation pays for our nuclear weapons programs. There is no official nuclear weapons budget. Instead, government spending accounts are often opaque, poorly defined and always spread out over several government agencies. But, as we debate appropriate levels of defense spending, Ploughshares Fund believes that it's important to get a sense of what the overall nuclear budget looks like. Read more »
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Posted by admin on October 7, 2012
International relations, Iran and weapons of mass destruction, Nuclear Budget, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear Weapons, Ploughshares Fund
Changing the Tune on Nuclear Weapons - VIDEO
There are plenty of songs out there that reference some kind of nuclear holocaust but few, if any, are as up-tempo and cheerful as satirist Tom Lehrer’s “We will all go Together when We Go.” This performance was recorded in 1967, in the midst of the Cold War. Read more »
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Posted by Peter Fedewa on March 5, 2012
Cold War, Entertainment, Nuclear Posture, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear Weapons, Tom Lehrer, Video, United States
Time to End Nuclear Testing
  How many tests are enough before you know that nuclear weapons are unacceptably destructive? The answer, it seems, is 2,053. That is the number of nuclear tests conducted worldwide since the Manhattan Project’s initial Trinity explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1945. Shockingly, over half of these tests have taken place here in the United States. Read more »
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Posted by Megan Murphy on January 25, 2012
CTBT, CTBT & Nuclear testing, International relations, Isao Hashimoto, Manhattan Project, National Day, Nevada, Nuclear warfare, radiation, United States
Vulnerable at 2,672 Nuclear Warheads?
In a recent article, Jeffrey Lewis of Arms Control Wonk outlined what could happen to U.S. nuclear forces under a sequestration budget. He illustrates that even with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s so-called “doomsday” cuts to nuclear weapons related activities, the U.S. could still field enough warheads to greatly surpass the limits put in place by New START. What could that “doomsday” look like if the U.S. maximized its nuclear forces? (View at full size) Read more »
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Posted by Peter Fedewa on December 5, 2011
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