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November 15, 2010

Admin Pledges $4B in Nuke Spending for START
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The Washington Post is reporting the Obama administration is offering to
spend over $4 billion on the nuclear complex to advance an arms
reduction treaty with Russia. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty,
or New START, calls for the U.S. and Russia to cut their deployed
arsenals to 1,550 nuclear warheads and 700 missile silos and bombers
each. Republicans have stalled the proposal in a bid to seek more
nuclear funding. The $4 billion would come on top of the $10 billion the
administration has already offered to upgrade nuclear facilities over
the next decade.



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