Bush keeps his word by Claudia Sonea

You can trust Bush administration? According to them, you can. Due to the treaty the US has with Russia since 2002 they are reducing the warheads to 1700-2200 by 2012. On Sunday the officials stated they are dismantling nuclear warheads in a faster then they were expecting, succeeding to dismantle three times as many in the completed year budget, according to The National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the Energy Department. However, the size of the nuclear stockpile will not be revealed, so besides the guess of 6000 warheads, there is nothing to prove us that it actually happened and that there is a progress. Despite the fact that an independent group of scientists who regularly advise the government on nuclear weapons issues, said there is still a long way to actually dismantle the warheads safely and without failure, the officials at the nuclear agency stated that there is a way to conduct the replacement without actually perform underground testing. According to the agency's administrator, Thomas D'Agostino, if the Congress provide the money for the program, nuclear arsenal will be more secure, safer and reliable in the future. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California was chose by the Agency for the replacement of warheads. The administration promised a clear timetable and cost estimation for the next year. Until now the Congress proved to be skeptical about the program and congressional opponents seen the findings as a way of holding back more money for the project. For the time been the budget is composed from stripped money from the Energy Department's upcoming budget and the Senate agreed partially to fund it. There is still expected Congress decision on the matter. President Bush and his administration promised three years ago to reduce the nuclear stockpile to half of what it was in the 1950s. We could trust him, but the fact that the number of existing warheads is still a mystery and we cannot know how many were dismantle, makes me skeptical about the whole deal. Don't go away, now it is getting interesting.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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