{"id":73,"date":"2007-03-03T18:37:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"2007-03-03T18:37:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T18:37:35","slug":"the-starting-gun-goes-off-for-another-nuclear-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/the-starting-gun-goes-off-for-another-nuclear-arms-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The starting gun goes off for another nuclear arms race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being the single largest nuclear power in the world, the United States is building more missiles.  Maybe it&#8217;s an echo of the saber-rattling going on in Iran or North Korea off the Oval Office door, but this is just disgusting.  The goal is, according to this &#8220;NYT article&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/03\/washington\/03nuke.html?ei=5088&#038;en=ed161959958c796a&#038;ex=1330578000&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1172936294-dgS7tY5dDxejG69oMkkkMQ\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/03\/washington\/03nuke.html?ei=5088&#038;en=ed161959958c796a&#038;ex=1330578000&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1172936294-dgS7tY5dDxejG69oMkkkMQ<\/a> , to replace the arsenal of aging warheads with a generation meant to be sturdier, more reliable, safer from accidental detonation and more secure from theft.  Nuclear weaponry has absolutely no place at all on the modern &#8216;battlefield&#8217;, if we can use such a term.  Is the US actually considering using these weapons, and if not why would billions of tax dollars go to such a program?  Does anyone remember what happened last time somebody used a nuclear weapon?<br \/>\n!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westbynorthwest.org\/summer02\/vop\/abomb.victim01.gif!\">http:\/\/www.westbynorthwest.org\/summer02\/vop\/abomb.victim01.gif!<\/a><br \/>\nAs if the US re-arming wasn&#8217;t enough to get the whole world back in the nuclear market, Col. Khadafi of Libya adds another disincentive.  In a rare interview with the BBC, Khadafi complains that western countries never followed-through on their promises of development aid in exchange for his country&#8217;s nuclear disarming.  For more on that story go &#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6414387.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6414387.stm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being the single largest nuclear power in the world, the United States is building more missiles.  Maybe it&#8217;s an echo of the saber-rattling going on in Iran or North Korea off the Oval Office door, but this is just disgusting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[237,385],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-military","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}