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WHAT IS HAPPENING ???
Obama in his Berlin speech 2013:
"...Peace with justice means pursuing the security of a world without nuclear weapons — no matter how distant that dream may be. And so, as President, I’ve strengthened our efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and reduced the number and role of America’s nuclear weapons. Because of the New START Treaty, we’re on track to cut American and Russian deployed nuclear warheads to their lowest levels since the 1950s. (Applause.)
But we have more work to do. So today, I’m announcing additional steps forward. After a comprehensive review, I’ve determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies, and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent, while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third. And I intend to seek negotiated cuts with Russia to move beyond Cold War nuclear postures. (Applause.)
At the same time, we’ll work with our NATO allies to seek bold reductions in U.S. and Russian tactical weapons in Europe. And we can forge a new international framework for peaceful nuclear power, and reject the nuclear weaponization that North Korea and Iran may be seeking.
America will host a summit in 2016 to continue our efforts to secure nuclear materials around the world, and we will work to build support in the United States to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and call on all nations to begin negotiations on a treaty that ends the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons. These are steps we can take to create a world of peace with justice. (Applause.)..."
source quote:transcript of Obama's Berlin Speech 2013 at Wall Street Journal - Washington Wire - WSJ Allmost simultane one can read at the Los Alamos Study Group press release 20 Jun 2013 and I quote:
"For immediate release June 20, 2013
Obama Administration Unveils 25-Year, $275 B Plan for Nuclear Warheads, Production Plants
Costly, Ambitious Plan at Variance with Obama's Berlin Speech
Contact: Greg Mello, 505-265-1200, 505-577-8563
Los Alamos Study Group (LASG):
http://lasg.org/press/2013/press_release_20Jun2013.html
Albuquerque - Roughly contemporaneous with President Obama's speech in Berlin expressing aspirations to nuclear disarmament, the administration released a $275 billion (B), 25-year plan (pdf) to maintain, design, and produce new nuclear warheads and build up U.S. warhead production capacity.[1]
In its proposed cost and scope of work, this week's plan eclipses all prior planning for U.S. nuclear warheads.
Among its other features the new plan would:
- Replace all current warheads and bombs - even those currently being upgraded - with several new warheads and bombs in a so-called "3+2" stockpile plan;
- Build dozens of new design, testing, and production facilities, to cost tens of billions of dollars; and
- Require ever-rising spending at warhead production sites and labs, from about $8 B today up to about $14 B annually by 2038.
These expenditures do not include the cost of the proposed (but currently deferred), large-scale new plutonium facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the completion and initial operation of which is assumed to occur in the late 2020s.[2]
The new plan is the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) 298 page Fiscal Year 2014 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (FY14 SSMP).[3]
Notwithstanding this week's plan, budget and planning credibility issues have dogged NNSA for years.[4] Virtually all NNSA projects are well over-budget and past their original schedules. Multibillion-dollar projects and programs once described as essential and urgent have been canceled, downscoped, or deferred. So this new plan may or may not assuage congressional doubts, despite its conspicuous claim (at p. v) to be "executable."
The plan carries the signature of newly-confirmed Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.
Two sample illustrations from the report are reproduced below.
Study Group Director Greg Mello: "The administration's stockpile management plan is a shocking prescription for ever-greater investments in U.S. nuclear warheads, one that should be widely read and discussed by citizens, diplomats, and policy analysts. It describes very clearly and in great detail a nuclear future which is exactly the opposite of the aspirations articulated by President Obama in Berlin...."
If ..., if Obama again promises Nuclear disarmament
and again gets away with it without fulfilling on any promise and
receives a second Noble price for Peace doing so !
That would really be absurd !!!!
Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use | |
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