U.S. Nuclear Deterrent in Danger

Heritage ^ | 3/21/12 | Michaela Bendikova

[Nachum]

After President Obama released his fiscal year 2013 budget, it became clear that the Administration reneged on its promise to fully fund the needs of the U.S. nuclear complex to the Senate pursuant to its advice and consent to the New Strategic Arms Control Treaty (New START). Thankfully, though, some in Congress are well aware of the value that U.S. nuclear weapons provide as the nation’s ultimate insurance policy.

Representative Mike Turner (R–OH), chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, recently introduced the Maintaining the President’s Commitment to our Nuclear Deterrent and National Security Act of 2012 (H.R. 4178). The bill addresses some of the key issues related to the funding for the nuclear weapons complex and links reductions of U.S. nuclear arsenal to proper appropriations for the nuclear weapons complex.

The Administration is reportedly moving to reduce the arsenal of operationally deployed nuclear warheads to as few as 300. Not only would these reductions be expensive—and funded from the already overstretched Department of Defense’s budget—but they are not based on a sound assessment of the international environment. The Administration is operating on the premise that if the U.S. reduces its nuclear arsenal, other countries will follow its lead. This is not going to happen, because countries have their own reasons why they acquire nuclear weapons that are not primarily derived from the number of U.S. weapons.

Turner’s bill would prevent these unilateral reductions by means of “a limitation that nuclear force reductions should be implemented in such a way as to assure Russia does not deploy nuclear force levels superior to those of the United States.”

[Texas Fossil]

US Dept of State.

OK

Now, the Weapons Industry is under the Energy Department.

My opinion is that State Department may have a clue, but the reality of what is available and it’s condition is only known by the Department of Defense and the DOE subdivision that oversees the manufacture.

Dems are always anxious to give “State Secrets” to the ChiComs and to Ivan. Example: the W88 technology that Slick Willie somehow gave to the ChiComs.

Traitors are truly within the gates this time.

[PapaBear3625]

The State Dept has the job of reporting our compliance with the arms treaty with the Russians. The numbers they give may or may not be fiction, but they are the official position of the US government