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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
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&#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 States, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve met the enemy in Afghanistan, and he&#8217;s changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Gutman. McClatchy Newspapers, 14 March 2010.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/14/90083/weve-met-the-enemy-in-afghanistan.html 
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 Today, although the United States and more than three dozen NATO allies and other countries are supporting Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the Taliban dominate a growing swath of territory, and their power trumps the government&#8217;s in three-quarters of the country.
Although they&#8217;re often portrayed as mindless fanatics, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Budget Resources 2011: Critical Perspectives on the Pentagon Budget and US Military Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compiled by the Project on Defense Alternatives, 11 March 2010.
http://www.comw.org/pda/budgetreview.html
A compilation of critical analysis and opinion from 30 analysts and policy centers.











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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
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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.











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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
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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; is a policy [...]]]></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
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&#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 too shocking from [...]]]></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
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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 Force Chief of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grading Scale for the Nuclear Posture Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travis Sharp. Nukes of Hazard, 05 March 2010.
http://www.nukesofhazardblog.com/story/2010/3/5/102229/0388












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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
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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 of nuclear disarmament [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speech by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mullen at Kansas State University</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[as delivered by Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Wednesday, 03 March 2010.
http://www.jcs.mil/speech.aspx?ID=1336 
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I’ve come to three conclusions – three principles – about the proper use of modern military forces:
1)  &#8230; military power should not – maybe cannot – be the last resort of [...]]]></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 preparing to conduct [...]]]></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
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&#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 model for future [...]]]></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. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Nuclear Review Is Delayed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Ambinder. The Atlantic Online, 26 February 2010.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/02/why-the-nuclear-review-is-delayed/36660/ 
Excerpt: 
&#8230; the release of the long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review will be delayed well into March because the basic issue &#8212; when, and why, the U.S. would use nuclear weapons, remains a contentious subject of debate.











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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 knows, than we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama disarmament paradox: A rebuttal</title>
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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 to national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing and sometimes deteriorating nature of the delays at Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 production facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winslow Wheeler. Straus Military Reform Project, 24 February 2010.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Straus Military Reform Project has obtained almost two years of monthly reports from the Defense Contract Management Agency on Lockheed-Martin’s production of the F-35 “Joint Strike Fighter.”  The most recent of those reports show deterioration from previous reports in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Defense Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cindy Williams. statement before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. Senate, 23 February 2010. Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute website.
http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/100223williams.pdf 
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O&#038;M spending does seem to rise and fall in loose concert with total defense budgets-an indication that some of the seemingly avoidable rise in O&#038;M spending is a consequence of budget largesse as much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Iraq madness!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nir Rosen. The Best Defense, 23 February 2010.
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/23/nir_rosen_stop_the_iraq_madness
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Iraqis on the street are no longer scared of rival militias so much, or of being exterminated and they no longer have as much support for the religious parties. Maliki is still perceived by many to be not very sectarian and not very religious, and more of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Posture Review to Reduce Regional Role of Nuclear Weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hans Kristensen. Federation of American Scientists blog, 22 February 2010.
http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/02/nukemission.php 












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		<title>DoD Budget Authority 1948-2019 from &#8220;An Undisciplined Defense&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Report 20, 18 January 2010.
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This chart illustrates the new high plateau of defense spending, well above the averages of the last fifty years.











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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 [...]]]></description>
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