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Originally posted by Danny
Even so, the US currently has enough nuclear weapons to eradicate the Human Race four times over (if I remember my figures correctly), plus Bush has increased the US Defense Budget from $14 billion to $139 billion over the last six months. Call me naive if you like, but is that not a little excessive?
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Well, the budget gets set once a year, and I don't think he can increase it once it's been approved by Congress. He might be asking for or proposing increases over the months.
Just today, he said he planned to raise the defense budget $48 billion to a total of $379 billion. It would be the biggest increase in two decades, but it's not like a ten-fold increase. I guess whether it's excessive depends on what it's being used for.
More to the point about nuclear weapons, I agree; we don't need so many. The US has been reducing the number it has since the demise of the Soviet Union. On Tuesday, I believe it was, he discussed mutual reductions with the Russian defense minister, and said they had agreed to reduce the number in both countries.
I agree, no matter how many they have is too many. I just don't want to give up all of ours when other countries possess them as well.