EDITOR’S NOTES:
World Federalists,
While Putin is calling for a Summit meeting, the US Congress and Trump are ramping up for more nuclear weaponry. The Pentagon’s nuclear “modernization” Life Extinction Program is in full gear. It’s what I call a “psychopathic” budget. But a bigger military budget won’t make us more secure, quite the opposite: A Summit meeting is a start in the right direction. They will need to discuss the only permanent solution to stopping a nuclear war — which is to FEDERATE. Putin, Trump and other world leaders must change course and support a “new UN” under the EARTH CONSTITUTION.
The most ominous feature of the new budget document issued Monday by the Trump administration is the prominent place given to the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons, including so-called low-yield weapons, smaller than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which are widely regarded as more likely to actually be used in combat.
Written By Patrick Martin
Reporter | World Socialist Web Site
March 2, 2020
Article originally published by World Socialist Web Site
The document calls for nearly $50 billion to be devoted to nuclear modernization, including $29 billion from the Pentagon budget, and $19.8 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a unit of the Department of Energy which operates the actual production of nuclear warheads, as well as some of the primary research.
The Trump budget would slash spending on diplomacy and foreign aid while sharply increasing funding for nuclear weapons, a clear indication of the policy direction being given from the White House in the wake of Trump’s acquittal last week in the impeachment trial before the Senate. The debacle of the Democratic effort to impeach Trump over foreign policy differences—while ignoring his real and ongoing crimes against the working class and democratic rights—has only emboldened the White House to press ahead with its program of militarism, austerity and attacks on immigrants.
The budget provides the largest amount for the Pentagon’s research and development budget in 70 years, since the period when US imperialism was engaged in the initial research on the hydrogen bomb and the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Nuclear weapons modernization funds rose by 18 percent compared to last year’s budget . . .
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