Testifying to the House Armed Services Committee today, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work unveiled a $270 billion plan to “upgrade” America’s massive arsenal of nuclear weapons, raising the question of exactly where all this money is going to come from.
Work, who has recently been making the rounds in calls for additional funding for various other Pentagon programs, notably laser weaponry for the Air Force to target China, insisted today that “Nuclear weapons remain the most important mission we have.”
Given the enormity of the extent nuclear arsenal, and the various cheating scandals the nuclear program has been racing, it’s hard to see how officials will justify this, particularly at a time when the US is supposed to be pushing for nuclear disarmament elsewhere.
Work, however, seemed totally ambivalent about where the money will come for, only seeking to make certain it doesn’t come from existing Pentagon funding elsewhere, and warning in particular he didn’t like the idea of taking the money from the Navy’s shipbuilding budget.
As a nation with one of the world’s largest two nuclear arsenals, capable of wiping out the entire human race multiple times over, the US inevitably faces questions about scaling back its program whenever these “upgrade” schedules come up. Officials continue to maintain that the US needs to keep the weapons sufficiently modern to assure that they all work if fired, but given the world-ending implications of even some of them working as intended, it seems they could easily do with less.
Someone stands to make a whole lot of money. So what lobbyists have been talking to Work?
The argument is no longer about "Cold War" but rather is about hot and very warm war.
DODX trains have been a bustlin' for over a year now in some parts.
If this goes as well as the F-35 development program, we won't have to worry about global warming.
'Pentagon Seeks $270 Billion for Nuclear Weapons'
Oboomer will most likely give these psychopathic war profiteering crooks,
thieves, and liars what they want, and (more).
After all, the Pentagon's job is to keep (us) safe from all the bogeymen
in the world who want to rob us of (our) freedom, with a small l.
If anyone believes that crap, I have some prime beachfront California real
estate for sale in the Florida Everglades…
Small f
"Nukes the 'Most Important' Mission of Pentagon"
As a former Marine and current warmonger, this guy should understand, I would hope, that the main purpose of the Pentagon (Defense Department) is to manage the effort to DEFEND the United States. Nukes are offensive weapons and add very little to a defensive posture except for threatening any who attack us with annihilation – which is an offensive action.
Hmmmm.. Let's see now. Each state could get $ 5,400,000,000 Mississippi, Detroit and even the poorest city In Pennsylvania, Johnstown, could sure use the spare change..
Since the beginning of civilization, the people most deadly have always ruled. Be it a neighbor, village or nation, in this kill or be killed world we just don’t step in harm’s way in such fatal way.
Therefore, unless by some miracle things change, either Russia, China or both will nuke our Empire, or global warming will get the best of us. For the purpose of this world is to reach the ultimate conclusion of it, so be it.
For in this liar’s paradise called earth, how else are we to know right from wrong, without by experience having endured the wrong?