Nuclear war

At a time when the Bush administration is imposing ever more stringent sanctions on Iran because the country is supposedly developing nuclear weapons, the U.S. itself is planning a new generation of weapons of mass destruction.

“Nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall crumbled, the United States is allocating more funding, on average, to nuclear weapons than during the Cold War. The Bush administration is pumping this money – more than USD6 billion this year – into renovating the nuclear weapons complex and designing new nuclear weapons. Such hypocrisy is one of the main obstacles to nuclear arms reductions because it runs the risk of shattering the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in which the nuclear-armed states pledged to begin the process of disarmament if the non-nuclear states opted not to pursue the deadly technology.”

“During the Cold War, spending on nuclear weapons averaged USD4.2 billion a year [...] annual increases will push the nuclear weapons budget to USD7.4 billion by 2012. [...] Spending on nuclear weapons research, development and maintenance in the DOE budget far outpaces the funding devoted to the development of alternative energy sources, a critical need in the age of global warming and dwindling oil supplies. ” (Alternet: Is Bush Leading Us to Nuclear War?)

Enough said. Who is leading us to Armageddon? The “jihadists” or the U.S.?