The USA’s Hidden WMD Program
The Department of Energy is spending an astonishing $6.5 billion on nuclear weapons this year, and President Bush is requesting $6.8 billion more for next year and a total of $30 billion over the following four years.

Measured in “real dollars” (that is, adjusting for inflation), this year’s spending on nuclear activities is equal to what Ronald Reagan spent at the height of the U.S.-Soviet standoff. It exceeds by over 50 percent the average annual sum ($4.2 billion) that the United States spent—again, in real dollars—throughout the four and a half decades of the Cold War.

There is no nuclear arms race going on now. The world no longer offers many suitable nuclear targets. President Bush is trying to persuade other nations—especially “rogue regimes”—to forgo their nuclear ambitions. Yet he is shoveling money to U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories as if the Soviet Union still existed and the Cold War still raged.

Bsti says:
“I think what I would do is decrease the WMD on the same level as those persuaded, not increase them.

It’s sending the message worldwide “We can have them but You can’t, because We Said So.”

Deterrant, my white bulbous buttocks.
We’ve already got plenty of “deterrent” in stock without spending billions making more.
And keep in mind Americans aren’t being asked by their employees about this, it’s all without consent or debate.
But hey, you can’t have a proper Apocalypse without losts of mushroom clouds, right?”