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Policy mixes dream of nuclear-free world, reality of weapons spending

Edit Stars and Stripes 29 May 2016
nuclear arsenal ... Add in new long-range bombers and refurbishments for warheads, intercontinental ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and other hardware, and some analysts say the total cost over 30 years could reach $1 trillion ... Gen ... “Does it make them more usable? It could be.” ... The reliability that comes with revamping old warheads also allows the U.S ... China has been working on missiles capable of launching multiple warheads ... sanctions ... ....

Silencing America as it prepares for war

Edit Dissident Voice 29 May 2016
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American way, along with the salivating violence of the Chicago police at the Democratic Party’s rigged convention ... No American president has built more nuclear warheads than Obama ... ....

These are all the countries that still have nuclear weapons

Edit The Independent 28 May 2016
There are around 15,850 nuclear warheads spread between nine nations, ......

The trillion dollar question Obama left unanswered in Hiroshima

Edit Topix 28 May 2016
Should we spend a trillion dollars to replace each of our thousands of nuclear warheads with a more sophisticated substitute attached to a more lethal delivery system? Or should we keep only enough nuclear weapons needed for a devastatingly effective deterrence against any nuclear aggressor, investing the money saved into other means of making our nation more secure? The first option would allow us to initiate and wage nuclear war ... ....

Obama might want a nuke-free world, but the US still has big plans for nuclear weapons

Edit Business Insider 28 May 2016
U.S ... See Also. President Obama gave a somber and apparently heartfelt speech Friday while visiting Hiroshima, the Japanese city where the U.S ... Hans M ... the number of warheads dismantled in 2015 was lowest since President Obama took office.” ... Also under the Obama administration, there is a significant backlog in warheads that have been officially retired but not actually physically dismantled and rendered harmless ... Loading video... ....

Hiroshima visit fresh start for nuclear-free world

Edit The Japan News 28 May 2016
By Keiko Iizuka / Yomiuri Shimbun International News Editor After laying a wreath of flowers, U.S. President Barack Obama, 54, straightened his back and closed his eyes. His visit was the first time for a sitting U.S. president to set foot in Hiroshima. Shortly after, he made remarks to the crowd at the site ... Nevertheless, there were 15,850 nuclear warheads in the world as of 2015 ... Not far from there, a member of the U.S ... Speech ... + - ... ....

Schram: A VA reformer’s successes get delayed by his own gaffe

Edit Boston Herald 28 May 2016
For several weeks, I had been reporting for a column that would urge a very specific action that our next president needs not only to undertake but to announce way early ... One, called MyVA Access, has as its goal that by the end of 2016, every veteran will get same day access to primary health care at a VA facility ... troops exploded Saddam Hussein’s weapons depot that unfortunately contained sarin nerve gas warheads ... Diagnosis ... ....

Obama has 'failed to deliver on nuclear disarmament promises'

Edit The Guardian 27 May 2016
According to the data, analysed by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), the US arsenal as of last September was 4,571 warheads. That was 702 warheads (or 13%) less than the final tally of the Bush administration ... The Pentagon figures show that 109 retired warheads were dismantled in 2015, the lowest number of weapons taken apart in the US in a single year since at least 1970....

Reduction of Nuclear Arsenal Has Slowed Under Obama, Report Finds

Edit New York Times 27 May 2016
As President Obama prepares to visit Hiroshima, Japan, a new census from the Pentagon details the administration’s efforts to dismantle warheads ... ....

Chinese ballistic missile submarines should definitely cause concern

Edit Asia Times 27 May 2016
In a recent article published by The Guardian, China is set to deploy nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines, or what many in the naval community affectionately call “boomers,” armed with the most deadly of weapons—long-range, nuclear tipped warheads that can travel thousands of miles and potentially target US territory ... or nuclear warhead....

Greenpeace calls out Obama’s double standards for a nuclear-free world at Hiroshima visit (Greenpeace International)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
(Source. Greenpeace International) ... president - but condemns his double-standards as his administration works to expand the U.S.' own nuclear capabilities ... still has 4,700 operational nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists, and continues to spend a fortune maintaining and modernising its arsenal ... 'U.S ... [2] Number of US operational nuclear warheads, as estimated by the Federation of American Scientists - here....

Barack Obama in Hiroshima: long on words, short on action

Edit The Irish Times 27 May 2016
The wheels of political atonement turn slowly. In 1997, Tony Blair became the first British prime minister to say sorry for the Famine. It took 150 years ... And there was to be no apology for the mass killing of over 200,000 people. Instead, there was a plea for nonproliferation and a universal message of peace ... “We are not bound . ... Together they removed 14,801 warheads from America’s stockpile. Obama’s reduction tally has been 500 warheads....

US nuclear forces are controlled by this shockingly obsolete tech

Edit Business Insider 27 May 2016
A new government report paints a disquieting picture of the computer systems used to run the United States ... But perhaps the most alarming information touches on the Department of Defense (DoD), which controls the nation's stockpile of 7,100 nuclear and thermonuclear warheads ... Like this one.. What does this ancient system do? Per the GAO report. ... Replacement parts for the system are difficult to find because they are now obsolete ... ....
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