{"id":104776,"date":"2014-01-09T21:53:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-bad-example-by-spending-on-nukes\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:53:16","slug":"us-bad-example-by-spending-on-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-bad-example-by-spending-on-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;bad example&#8217; by spending on nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen says the US is setting a \u00c5\u201cvery bad example\u201d by spending on nukes and not allowing other countries to engage in proliferation of nuclear weapons.  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cThe mere fact that the United States under President Obama is focusing on its pivot to Asia, it\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s allowing countries like Japan to engage in expansion of its own military,\u201d Madsen said in a phone interview with Press TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cUS again sets a very bad example by allowing Japan, which suffered the only nuclear attack in history on its two cities, to engage in this military extension, which may include the acquisition of nuclear weapons,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A report by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) said the US is planning to spend over $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal over the next 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cOver the next thirty years, the United States plans to spend approximately $1 trillion maintaining the current arsenal, buying replacement systems, and upgrading existing nuclear bombs and warheads,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The report adds that \u00c5\u201cprocurement of replacement platforms and associated warheads will peak during a four to six year window, sometime after 2020\u201d during which Washington will devote as much as three percent of its annual military budget to its nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cThe United States is fond of going around the world telling other countries not to engage in proliferation of nuclear weapons and we in the United States are setting a very bad example by insisting on the maintenance of these nuclear weapons and arsenals,\u201d Madsen said.<\/p>\n<p>AGB\/AGB<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/01\/09\/344705\/us-bad-example-by-spending-on-nukes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"US 'bad example' by spending on nukes\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen says the US is setting a \u00c5\u201cvery bad example\u201d by spending on nukes and not allowing other countries to engage in proliferation of nuclear weapons. \u00c5\u201cThe mere fact that the United States under President Obama is focusing on its pivot to Asia, it\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s allowing countries like Japan to engage in expansion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}