January 29, 2010
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'Nobel Peace Prize-winner Barack Obama ups spending on nuclear weapons to even more than George Bush' (Carol Driver, 29th January 2010, Daily Mail)
Barack Obama has allocated £4.3billion to spend on maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile - £370million more than what was budgeted by George Bush.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 29, 2010 3:33 PMThe budget will also be increased by more than £3.1billion over the next five years.
The announcement comes despite the American President declaring nuclear weapons were the ‘greatest danger’ to U.S. people during in his State of the Union address on Wednesday.
