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		<title>If Anything, $700 Billion Underestimates U.S. Nuke Spending in Next Decade</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/12/05/if-anything-700-billion-underestimates-u-s-nuke-spending-in-next-decade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Blair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler assigned two Pinocchios to the Ploughshares Fund estimate that the United States will spend upwards of $700 billion on nuclear weapons programs over the next decade.  My take on this debate, based on a Global Zero study, comes down in favor of Ploughshares. In an exchange with Glenn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=61291&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCaption><![CDATA[How much are we spending on nukes?]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>China’s Rapid Space Ascent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Blair</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent revelatory study by my colleagues Eric Hagt and Matthew Durnin to be published in the Journal of Strategic Studies (October 2011 Vol. 34) describes China’s rapid expansion of its space satellite network from humble beginnings only one decade ago. It’s constellation of reconnaissance, data-relay, navigation and communications satellites provide global as well as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=53554&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Nuke Spending to Top $1 Trillion Per Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Blair</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having contributed to the two definitive studies of U.S. nuclear weapons spending (Brooking’s Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 and Carnegie Endowment’s Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities) which found that the United States incurred a cost of nearly $6 trillion on its nuclear weapons program from 1940-1996, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=50921&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Note:  figures in billions of US dollars.  Core costs refer to operating, maintaining, and upgrading the nuclear arsenal and its key nuclear command-control-communications and early warning infrastructure; full costs add unpaid/deferred environmental and health costs, and missile defenses assigned to defend against nuclear weapons.  </mediaCredit>
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		<title>Trump to Obama:  We’re Under Nuclear Attack – Pass the Phone to Biden</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/04/25/trump-to-obama-we%e2%80%99re-under-nuclear-attack-%e2%80%93-pass-the-phone-to-biden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Blair</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commander-in-Chief Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear codes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would Donald Trump do if he were a nuclear emergency action officer on duty today at the war room in the Pentagon (the National Military Command Center) or its alternates, and a nuclear emergency erupted that required the President to be summoned by phone to consult with his top nuclear advisors about a possible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=48290&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nuke Modernization – Wrong Priority</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Blair</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear elimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://battleland.blogs.time.com/?p=48213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why should we (and Secretary of Defense Gates in particular) be talking about modernizing all elements of the U.S. strategic triad of nuclear-armed submarines, land-based rockets, and bombers if we (President Obama in particular) have a decent chance of negotiating the total elimination &#8212; Global Zero &#8212; of all of the world&#8217;s nuclear arsenal? &#8220;All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=48213&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trapped in ‘Residual Nuclear Deterrence’</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/04/20/trapped-in-%e2%80%98residual-nuclear-deterrence%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Blair</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hair-Trigger Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Missile Launch Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone else been wondering why our vast nuclear forces are largely escaping unscathed from the budgetary axe falling on other defense programs?  The justification, as put to me this week by a top Pentagon official, is that we still need to maintain ‘residual deterrence’ in our relations with Russia. So missile launch crews stand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=47885&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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