The USA drives other countries to build hideously dangerous weapons. The USA is spending far too much on the military.
April 16, 2016
By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger
The United States, Russia and China (click here) are now aggressively pursuing a new generation of smaller, less destructive nuclear weapons. The buildups threaten to revive a Cold War-era arms race and unsettle the balance of destructive force among nations that has kept the nuclear peace for more than a half-century.
It is, in large measure, an old dynamic playing out in new form as an economically declining Russia, a rising China and an uncertain United States resume their one-upmanship....
There was a time when peace activists would point out how people could have better quality of life if governments outside the permanent members spent monies on the people and infrastructure rather than military.
Today, the same statements apply to the USA. There is a growing level of impoverishment in the USA while the country is spending trillions on the military. How is the world suppose to back down military spending and invest in their people when the USA's governance is very much out of control? At this point countries can point to the USA as a menace even to it's own people.
January 11, 2016
By William J. Broad and David Sanger
As North Korea dug tunnels (click here) at its nuclear test site last fall, watched by American spy satellites, the Obama administration was preparing a test of its own in the Nevada desert.
A fighter jet took off with a mock version of the nation’s first precision-guided atom bomb. Adapted from an older weapon, it was designed with problems like North Korea in mind: Its computer brain and four maneuverable fins let it zero in on deeply buried targets like testing tunnels and weapon sites. And its yield, the bomb’s explosive force, can be dialed up or down depending on the target, to minimize collateral damage.
In short, while the North Koreans have been thinking big — claiming to have built a hydrogen bomb, a boast that experts dismiss as wildly exaggerated — the Energy Department and the Pentagon have been readying a line of weapons that head in the opposite direction....
April 16, 2016
By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger
The United States, Russia and China (click here) are now aggressively pursuing a new generation of smaller, less destructive nuclear weapons. The buildups threaten to revive a Cold War-era arms race and unsettle the balance of destructive force among nations that has kept the nuclear peace for more than a half-century.
It is, in large measure, an old dynamic playing out in new form as an economically declining Russia, a rising China and an uncertain United States resume their one-upmanship....
There was a time when peace activists would point out how people could have better quality of life if governments outside the permanent members spent monies on the people and infrastructure rather than military.
Today, the same statements apply to the USA. There is a growing level of impoverishment in the USA while the country is spending trillions on the military. How is the world suppose to back down military spending and invest in their people when the USA's governance is very much out of control? At this point countries can point to the USA as a menace even to it's own people.
January 11, 2016
By William J. Broad and David Sanger
As North Korea dug tunnels (click here) at its nuclear test site last fall, watched by American spy satellites, the Obama administration was preparing a test of its own in the Nevada desert.
A fighter jet took off with a mock version of the nation’s first precision-guided atom bomb. Adapted from an older weapon, it was designed with problems like North Korea in mind: Its computer brain and four maneuverable fins let it zero in on deeply buried targets like testing tunnels and weapon sites. And its yield, the bomb’s explosive force, can be dialed up or down depending on the target, to minimize collateral damage.
In short, while the North Koreans have been thinking big — claiming to have built a hydrogen bomb, a boast that experts dismiss as wildly exaggerated — the Energy Department and the Pentagon have been readying a line of weapons that head in the opposite direction....
