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		<title>Carl Conetta speaks on strategic value of getting the nation&#8217;s financial house in order</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitol Visitors Center, 11 June 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s National Security Strategy: How Will It Be Managed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 01:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura A. Hall. Budget Insight, 27 May 2010. http://budgetinsight.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/obamas-national-security-strategy-how-will-it-be-managed/ Excerpt: On the military side, no clear prioritization of missions. As in the QDR, the NSS provides no priorities among military missions, but repeats a long shopping list that could drive force structure and budget expectations even higher than they are now.]]></description>
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		<title>Treaty Signings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Krepon. Arms Control Wonk, 08 April 2010. http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/2690/treaty-signings Excerpt: Despite claims to the contrary, New START does not inhibit the growth of U.S. conventional power projection capabilities that, unlike nuclear weapons, are militarily useful on battlefields. Nor will New START impede ballistic missile defense programs&#8230; Editor&#8217;s Comment: &#8230; and that is why, despite the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deadly Current Toward Nuclear Arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Carroll. Boston Globe, 15 March 2010. Hosted on the CommonDreams website. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/15-5 Excerpt: &#8230; experts who warn of a coming &#8220;cascade of proliferation,&#8221; one nation following another into the deadly chasm of nuclear weapons unless present nuclear powers find a way to reverse the current. The main burden is on Russia and the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can DOD Measure the Resource Allocation for its Strategic Missions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travis Sharp. Nukes of Hazard, 05 March 2010. http://www.nukesofhazardblog.com/story/2010/3/5/162522/3909 Excerpt: It would help the Pentagon, the Congress, defense experts, and the American public if DOD published an analytically defensible record of its spending by strategic mission. Editor&#8217;s Comment: Yes, indeed.]]></description>
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		<title>Debate: On the Right Nuclear Weapons Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Marshall. AOL News, 05 March 2010. http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/debate-on-the-right-nuclear-weapons-track/19385662 Excerpt: Obama reasons that, by holding up its end of the bargain, the United States can strengthen global nonproliferation norms and intensify pressure on Tehran and other regimes that may be thinking about acquiring nuclear weapons. And as White House officials have stressed, the nuclear &#8220;zero option&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate: Waiting for Obama&#8217;s Policy on Nukes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher A. Ford. AOL News, 05 March 2010. http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/debate-waiting-for-obamas-policy-on-nukes/19385644 Excerpt: &#8230; but remarkably, for all his nuclear posing, no one knows what Obama&#8217;s nuclear weapons policy actually is. So far, his administration has done little of real import. Obama seeks a modest new arms-reduction treaty with Russia but contemplates cuts that would not have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forward Observer: QDR is a Quite Disappointing Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George C. Wilson. Government Executive, 05 March 2010. http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=44743&#038;sid=61 Excerpt: I spent months in 1997 going behind the scenes at the Pentagon and Congress to find out about all the wheeling and dealing that went into the writing of the QDR that year. &#8220;I had high hopes for the QDR,&#8221; Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Nuclear Weapons Policy &#8211; a debate with ten voices and thirteen parts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a compilation, Defense Strategy Review Page, 03 March 2010 . http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/obama-nuclear-policy-a-debate Excerpt: This debate began when Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group wrote a February 10, 2010 commentary for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. I posted his commentary on this site and wrote a response. I then invited a variety of leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pentagon&#8217;s Runaway Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Conetta. Foreign Policy in Focus, 03 March 2010. http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_pentagons_runaway_budget Excerpt: Following the collapse of Soviet power, America&#8217;s leaders set more ambitious goals for the U.S. military, despite its smaller size. This entailed requiring the armed services to sustain and extend their continuous global presence, improving their readiness and speed, increasing peacetime engagement activities, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing the QDR and 2011 defense budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Adams. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 02 March 2010. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/gordon-adams/assessing-the-qdr-and-2011-defense-budget Excerpt: &#8230;there is a core assumption in the QDR and defense budget that near-term missions are going to last forever, particularly counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and stability operations. The case for this projection seems to be based on the idea that Iraq and Afghanistan are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Hoey responds to the Mello-Knight exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Hoey is the founder of the Military Space Transparency Project (MSTP) and a former senior research associate at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) where he specialized in forecasting developments in missile defense and military space technologies. He responded on 02 March 2010 to the Mello-Knight exchange of views on nuclear disarmament [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Eckel. Foreign Policy Watch, 01 March 2010. http://fpwatch.blogspot.com/2010/03/nuclear-weapons-in-twenty-first-century.html Excerpt: Though American leaders try not to say it out loud too often, one of the reasons Iran&#8217;s nuclear program is unsettling to Washington is that it constrains the ability of the United States to topple the Iranian regime by force, should push come to shove. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Lean Times, Military Spending Still Gets a Pass</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Thompson. Time Magazine, 24 February 2010. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1967353,00.html Excerpt: Let&#8217;s repeat that: even without a superpower rival like the Soviet Union — with its arsenals of nuclear weapons, fleets of tanks and armadas of warships, all manned by 10-foot-tall Red Army troops — the U.S. is now spending more preparing for war against, well, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama disarmament paradox: A rebuttal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Isaacs and Robert G. Gard, Jr. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 24 February 2010. http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-obama-disarmament-paradox-rebuttal John Isaacs: The executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Isaacs represents the center’s sister organization, Council for a Livable World, on Capitol Hill. His expertise is in how Congress works, especially when it pertains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>for deflecting any scrutiny of the military budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Get Serious About Reform: Budget Challenges Will Force Hard Choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight. Defense News, 21 February 2010. During the past decade, the U.S. Defense Department has enjoyed a rise in its budget unprecedented since the Korean War. With President Barack Obama&#8217;s fiscal 2011 budget request, it is up nearly 100 percent in real terms from its post-Cold War low. But few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Todd Fine responds to the Mello-Knight exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todd Fine organized and developed the Global Zero campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons as a program officer at the World Security Institute. He is currently working to establish the Iran Data Portal at Princeton University. He responded on 18 February 2010 to the Knight-Mello exchange of views on nuclear disarmament and the Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop at Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Blechman. New York Times, 18 February 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/opinion/19blechman.html Excerpt: Here’s how a global nuclear disarmament treaty could work. First, it would spell out a decades-long schedule for the verified destruction of all weapons, materials and facilities. Those possessing the largest arsenals — the United States and Russia — would make deep cuts first. Those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Nuclear Decision Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Cirincione. Huffington Post, 17 February 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/obamas-nuclear-decision-d_b_465223.html Excerpt: &#8230; democracy does not apply to nuclear weapons policy. It never has. No nation has ever had a vote on whether to go nuclear. These decisions are made in secret. They don&#8217;t have to be.]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Granoff responds to the Mello-Knight exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Granoff is president of the Global Security Institute. He responded on 15 February 2010 to the Mello-Knight exchange of views on nuclear disarmament and the Obama administration. Jonathan Granoff is the author of Memo to Obama: Nuclear Weapons, which appeared in Tikkun Magazine, January-February 2009. __________________ Jonathan Granoff: Was President Obama outplayed by DOD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ingram responds to Mello-Knight exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Ingram is the executive director of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC). He responded on 15 February 2010 to the Mello-Knight exchange of views on nuclear disarmament and the Obama administration. Ingram: Everyone knows that in this tough world of realist nuclear politics it does not pay to be naïve. What is less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Hartung responds to Mello-Knight exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William D. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. He responded on 15 February 2010 to the Mello-Knight exchange of views on nuclear disarmament and the Obama administration. ______________ Hartung: Obama&#8217;s aspirations go beyond just his statement at Prague. He is in the midst of negotiating a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Could See America Through China&#8217;s Eyes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Clemons. TPM Cafe, 13 February 2010. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/13/several_years_ago_i_met/]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama disarmament paradox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Mello. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 10 February 2010. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-obama-disarmament-paradox Greg Mello is the executive director and co-founder of the Los Alamos Study Group. ______________ Last April in Prague, President Barack Obama gave a speech that many have interpreted as a commitment to significant nuclear disarmament. Now, however, the White House is requesting one [...]]]></description>
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