PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama needs money. "To make the investments we need," he said last week, "we'll have to scour our federal budget, line by line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices, as well."
There is no better place to start than the nuclear weapons budget. He can cut obsolete programs and transfer tens of billions of dollars per year to pressing conventional military and domestic programs.
PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama needs money. "To make the investments we need," he said last week, "we'll have to scour our federal budget, line by line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices, as well."
There is no better place to start than the nuclear weapons...
December 2, 2008 - By Joe Cirincione