COMMUNITIES PUSH BACK AGAINST REPORTS OF HUGE NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUDGET INCREASE
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA)/SRS Watch news release, February 4, 2020
Multiple sources indicate the FY2021 budget request from the Trump Administration will seek a dramatic increase in funding for nuclear weapons—an unprecedented leap of 20% over current spending levels, bringing the total for The National Nuclear Security Administration to $20 billion. Reportedly, the increase is earmarked principally for modernization programs for warhead design and plutonium pit manufacturing facilities.
News reports have included outlandish statements from NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty who suggested providing any less that $20 billion would amount to “unilateral disarmament,” a claim no truer than the since discredit declaration of a missile gap with the Soviets in 1962.
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, a nationwide coalition of grassroots watchdog groups from every major US nuclear weapons facility, notes that the current US nuclear stockpile has been certified reliable and is expected to be reliable for at least forty more years.
Full news release linked here: https://orepa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ANA-media-20B-budget-final.pdf
Letter to Congress linked here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52311edfe4b0830625de8366/t/5e397134d2da2804059d0a20/1580822836897/ANA+%2420B+ltr+final.pdf