{"id":215,"date":"2003-11-06T03:01:34","date_gmt":"2003-11-06T07:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=215"},"modified":"2003-11-06T03:01:34","modified_gmt":"2003-11-06T07:01:34","slug":"congress-gives-bush-money-for-smaller-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Congress gives Bush money for smaller nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article Congress can&#8217;t find <a href=\"http:\/\/famulus.msnbc.com\/famulusgen\/ap11-05-123711.asp?t=apnew&#038;vts=11520032343\"><i>about $3.6 billion in additional funds for updated voting equipment, AIDS assistance abroad, veterans health care and education<\/i><\/a> but they are willing to fund the following:<\/p>\n<p><i>Bargainers on the energy-water bill provided $7.5 million for work on the bunker busters, bombs that would burrow through earth and rock to destroy underground targets. The administration wanted twice that amount. <\/p>\n<p>The bill would provide all $6 million Bush proposed for research into &#8221;mini-nukes&#8221; of less than 5 kilotons. But $4 million of that amount would be provided only after the administration submits a report on the status of the country&#8217;s nuclear weapons stockpile. <\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers provided $11 million of the $23 million the Energy Department wanted for preliminary studies for manufacturing plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons. The department says the triggers are needed for the country&#8217;s aging arsenal of warheads. <\/p>\n<p>They also agreed to enough money to shorten the current three-year lead time needed to resume underground testing of nuclear weapons to two years, not the 18 months the administration requested. <\/p>\n<p>The House version of the bill had made even deeper cuts in the nuclear weapons work, while the Senate had agreed to give all the administration had requested. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. David Hobson, R-Ohio, and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., chief authors of the bill, called it a compromise. But opponents of nuclear testing complained that the final version went too far. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I have the most profound objection to this reopening of the nuclear door,&#8221; said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>They are also intending to fund <a href=\"http:\/\/yuccamountainfacts.org\/index.php\">this disaster in the making<\/a>, a project that apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/sunbin\/stories\/text\/2003\/may\/30\/515151995.html\">places the careers of whistleblowers\/investigators in jeopardy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article Congress can&#8217;t find about $3.6 billion in additional funds for updated voting equipment, AIDS assistance abroad, veterans health care and education but they are willing to fund the following: Bargainers on the energy-water bill provided $7.5 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}