Donate Today!     Popular content  Beyond START  The Obama
Administration will pay a heavy price to ratify the modest START
treaty should it receive the required 67 Senate votes this week
to enact it into law. The President's originally promised the
weapons labs $80 billion dollars over ten years for building
three new bomb factories in Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Kansas
City to modernize our nuclear arsenals as well as an additional
$100 billion for new delivery systems-missiles, bombers, and
submarines. He then sweetened the pot with an offer of another
$4 billion to the nuclear weapons establishment to buy the
support of Senator Kyl. Additionally, he is assuring the Senate
hawks that missile development in the US will proceed full speed
ahead, even though, for the past several years, Russia and China
have proposed negotiations on a draft treaty they submitted to
the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva to ban space
weaponization. Every country at that conference voted in favor
of preventing an arms race in o