Obama ups spending on nuclear weapons

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

'Nobel Peace Prize-winner Barack Obama ups spending on nuclear weapons to even more than George Bush'

President Obama is planning to increase spending on America's nuclear weapons stockpile just days after pledging to try to rid the world of them.

In his budget to be announced on Monday, Mr Obama has allocated £4.3billion to maintain the U.S. arsenal - £370million more than George Bush spent on nuclear weapons in his final year.

The announcement comes despite the American President declaring nuclear weapons were the ‘greatest danger’ to U.S. people during in his State of the Union address on Wednesday.

And it flies in the face of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to him in October for ‘his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples’.

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From Barack Obama's State of the Union speech:

Even as we prosecute two wars, we are also confronting perhaps the greatest danger to the American people - the threat of nuclear weapons.

I have embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan through a strategy that reverses the spread of these weapons, and seeks a world without them.

To reduce our stockpiles and launchers, while ensuring our deterrent, the United States and Russia are completing negotiations on the farthest-reaching arms control treaty in nearly two decades.

And at April's Nuclear Security Summit, we will bring forty-four nations together behind a clear goal: securing all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world in four years, so that they never fall into the hands of terrorists.

These diplomatic efforts have also strengthened our hand in dealing with those nations that insist on violating international agreements in pursuit of these weapons.

That is why North Korea now faces increased isolation, and stronger sanctions sanctions that are being vigorously enforced.

That is why the international community is more united, and the Islamic Republic of Iran is more isolated.

And as Iran's leaders continue to ignore their obligations, there should be no doubt: they, too, will face growing consequences.

That is the leadership that we are providing -- engagement that advances the common security and prosperity of all people.

[mawilson 2,133]

Good, we need lots of nukes.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

i wonder what the procedures are to take away a nobel.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

i wonder what the procedures are to take away a nobel.

There is a spot under the felt, to insert a detonator and a fuse.

[I'm Gone 60]

Yeah and he is going to freeze spending. All I keep hearing from him is things he is going to increase spending on. Yet to hear one thing he is actually going to cut.