This is rather interesting — apparently Pres. Obama thinks that the Nukes are more important than President Bush. I see this as being rather embarrassing to the White House.

I also will say that I generally agree with lots of spending on nuclear weapons; our current wars involve most conventional forces fighting guerrilla and terrorist insurgents. It does not make much sense to me other than making the tensions with the Russians potentially worse:

‘Nobel Peace Prize-winner Barack Obama ups spending on nuclear weapons to even more than George Bush’

President Obama is planning to increase spending on America’s nuclear weapons stockpile just days after pledging to try to rid the world of them.

In his budget to be announced on Monday, Mr Obama has allocated £4.3billion to  maintain the U.S. arsenal - £370million more than George Bush spent on nuclear weapons in his final year.

The Obama administration also plans to spend a further £3.1billion over the next five years on nuclear security.

Mail Online

It would make more sense to spend more money on disposing of more of the nukes if his stance is to rid the world of them.

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