Tag: Nuclear Weapons

NOVANEWS By Eric Zuesse Strategic Culture Foundation Mark Strauss, the Editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, headlined on 8 September 2014, «Nukes Are Cannibalizing The U.S. Defense Budget», and he raised the question of why nuclear forces are «cannibalizing the U.S. defense budget» now decades after the end of the Soviet Union and of its Warsaw Pact military alliance and its communist dictatorial ideology. No American President will be able significantly to improve the U.S. economy who fails to reverse this cannibalization by U.S. nuclear-forces advocates and contractors (who get trillions of dollars from this nuclear-weapons business). Strauss was summarizing a study «Study of the FY 2015 Defense Budget» by Todd Harrison, who now is the Director of Defense Budget at ...