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In These Times by William D. Hartung, Frida Berrigan | Apr. 30, 2007 (News Analysis)

The Bush admininstration's "Complex 2030" plan is reviving the nuclear threat

While the United States demands that other countries end their nuclear programs, the Bush administration is busy planning a new generation of nuclear weapons. Nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall crumbled, the United States is allocating more funding, on average, to nuclear weapons than during the Cold War. The Bush administration is pumping this money--more than $6 billion this year--into renovating the nuclear weapons complex and designing new nuclear ... Full Story »

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by Jim Hutto - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a very narrow minded foolish view of the current world situation. Weakness encourages aggression. If nothing else we owe it to the world to be a force that is beyond challenge regarding the ultimate weapons that our technological age has produced. At the heart of this article is the belief that by disarming we will cause other nations to choose to disarm. Any serious evaluation of the world situation today will show a thinking person that this isn't true. A good case in point is Tibet. A truely peaceful country, unarmed and open hearted has been overrun by it's aggressive neighbor without any real motivation other than "why not". In the end world peace will happen but only after aggressor nations are broken and those leaders that would use aggression are replaced by leaders who serve their popoulations highest and best interests.