http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/ Grassroots action for a safer, more just world Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/#comment-2417 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:09:24 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1300#comment-2417 I’m impressed! You’ve managed the aomlts impossible.

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/#comment-1545 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:22:30 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1300#comment-1545 [...] unwise negotiating strategy, the Obama administration anticipated these arguments and increased the budget for the nuclear weapons complex by 10% (while declaring a spending freeze on critical domestic funding no less) prior to any debate [...]

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/#comment-1308 Fri, 28 May 2010 19:25:53 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1300#comment-1308 [...] New START, Nuclear Weapons, nuclear weapons funding, Nukes, UPF by Cara Bautista The whopping $7 billion for nuclear weapons programs that was proposed for 2011 is just the tip of the iceberg in a huge funding increase for the [...]

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/#comment-1130 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:56:03 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1300#comment-1130 [...] of it will go to expanding our country’s ability to produce more nuclear warheads in the future. As Peace Action West noted when the FY 2011 budget was released: “Though the president has often spoken of the long-term national security goal of achieving a [...]

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/#comment-1122 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:41:10 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1300#comment-1122 [...] their intense lobbying campaign, hawks in Congress and the nuclear weapons labs got a whopping $7 billion for nuclear weapons programs in next year’s proposed budget. Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) is leading the fight to strip the [...]

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/#comment-1073 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:48:18 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1300#comment-1073 [...] our nuclear weapons as we work to reduce them makes sense, a large chunk of that funding goes to unnecessary new facilities that do not contribute to that goal. Instead, funding for a new plutonium pit facility (the bomb [...]

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/#comment-1062 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:22:50 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1300#comment-1062 Will peace activists be deluded into voting for Obama again in 2012?

]]> http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/02/02/2011-budget-analysis-of-the-10-increase-in-nuclear-weapons-funding/#comment-1058 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:02:46 +0000 http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/?p=1300#comment-1058 [...] Nuclear Pork Action Alert: 10 Percent Increase for Nuclear Weapons 2010 February 9 tags: CMRR, FY2011 budget, new nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons complex, Nukes, UPF by Cara Bautista Below is an alert we sent to some of our supporters on the nuclear pork in the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. Click on the following committee links to check if your representative is a member of a key committee that decides how much funding nuclear weapons will actually get. If your representative is on either the House Armed Services Committee or the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, please take action and email your representative. Next year’s budget has just been released and while it has a spending freeze for most domestic programs, there’s plenty of nuclear weapons pork. The nukes budget comes in at roughly $7 billion, getting a ten percent increase. [...]

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