<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/57da494e-f2fc-4152-b853-c73f1d70945c/C3259934-7FD1-42B3-86BE-FFA43B069623/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp" href="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp" style="font-size: 11px;">carnegieendowment.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp">The United States spent over $52 billion on nuclear weapons and related programs in fiscal year 2008, but only 10 percent of that went toward preventing a nuclear attack and slowing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. That is the main finding of <EM>Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities</EM>, a new study that uses publicly available documents and extensive interviews with government officials and experts to calculate the comprehensive U.S. nuclear security "budget."  The United States has never tracked nuclear weapon-related spending comprehensively, hindering effective oversight and public understanding of the government's nuclear priorities.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/carnegieendowment.org/img/C1D1F08A-9194-4A23-9611-2E83B29DDFE6" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp">Only 1.3 percent ($700 million) of the nuclear security budget was devoted to preparing for the consequences of a nuclear or radiological attack.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp">Nuclear security consumes $13 billion more than international diplomacy and foreign assistance;</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp">14 times</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp">(DOE) budgets for all energy-related research and development. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/carnegieendowment.org/img/F8574E4D-C810-49CB-9974-611E35EA2F01" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C3259934-7FD1-42B3-86BE-FFA43B069623/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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