"2010 budget cuts key nuke program"

[hedgehog]

"Anti-nuclear weapons advocates warmly welcomed President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget as it has eliminated funding for research and development of a new-generation nuclear warhead called the Reliable Replacement Warhead.

"Development work on the Reliable Replacement Warhead will cease, while continued work to improve the nuclear stockpile's safety, security, and reliability is enhanced with more expansive life extension programs," the budget document said.

"It’s dead and this is a very important development,” said John Isaacs, Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where his work focuses on national security issues. "This is a very positive sign."

http://ncronline.org/news/peace/2010-budget-cuts-key-nuke-program

[Ohio Joe]

1. Good

The last thing we need is better (well.. worse) nukes.

[Cha]

2. Rec'd~ An excellent

sign for getting rid of waste.

[Peace Patriot]

3. What ever happened to "nuclear disarmanent," "a world free of nuclear weapons" (JFK)

and "world peace"?

Oh, yeah, they killed him.

I guess we gotta start somewhere -- to begin to undo the impacts of that assassination.*

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*(Highly recommended: "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," by James Douglass.)

[Aloha Spirit]

4. Ooh, I will look into that. Nuclear disarmament was one of my top issues for the 2008 election.

For whatever reason, it also was a major issue for Obama during his senate years.
Maybe he also sees it as unfinished business from Kennedy's presidency.