SCARY Fact: U.S. still stores about 10,000 nuclear warheads! See here if they are stored near YOU.

[RiverStone]

BushCo is spending 12 times more on nuke production then on nonproliferation (retrieve, secure, and deposing of the damn things). The story below provides details on where we have all these nasties housed world-wide, as well as a handy map which references if any are stored in your neighborhood.

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Ever wondered where all those nukes are stored?

A new review published in the November/December issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shows that the United States stores its nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads at 18 locations in 12 states and six European countries.

The highest concentration of nuclear warheads is at the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific in Bangor, Washington, which is home to more than 2,300 warheads – probably the most nuclear weapons at any one site in the world. At any given moment, nearly half of these warheads are on board ballistic-missile submarines in the Pacific Ocean.

Approximately 1,700 warheads are deployed on Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines operating in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and about 400 warheads are at eight bases in six European countries – Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Great Britain (for more information on U.S. warheads in Europe, go to http://www.nukestrat.com/us/afn/nato.htm). The United States is the only nuclear weapon state that deploys nuclear weapons in foreign countries.

Full story and USA nuke locations maps here:

http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2006/11/new_article_where_the_bombs_ar.php

Makes one sick! :grr:

Despite the end of the Cold War, the Bush administration is spending 12 times more on nuclear weapons research and production than on nonproliferation efforts to retrieve, secure and dispose of nuclear weapons materials worldwide, according to an analysis of Department of Energy programs released today by NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council). Much of the spending on weapons research and production, which amounted to $6.5 billion in fiscal 2004, is funding costly projects that are "irrelevant to the defense and security challenges" that confront the nation, the report found.

http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressReleases/040413.asp

I pray we get Chimp and Cheney out of office before they press any red buttons! :nuke: :scared:

[Pugee]

1. This older video is interesting and absolutely unbelievable!

http://www.truemajorityaction.org/bensbbs/

[John Gauger]

2. Kind of makes you think -

We have 10,000, we are the only nation ever to be irresponsible enough to use not one but two (on civilian populations, among which our government knew were American POWs - about thirty US citizens were murdered by the government in those blasts) we have recently committed the crime of international aggression, and we are concerned about Iran gettion _one_, ten years from now?

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. New rule:

Anyone who cannot pronounce "nuclear" should automatically be ineligible for U.S. presidency.