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		<title>End of the B53 Era; Continuation of the Spin Era</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/10/end-of-the-b53-era.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Colten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hans Kristensen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Katie Colten and Hans Kristensen [Modifed] Today, one of the largest weapons in the United States nuclear weapons arsenal, the B53, will be dismantled at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. Developed during the Cold War and deployed in 1962, this bomb weighs as much as a minivan and has an explosive yield of nine megatons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter Urges Super Committee to Reduce Nuclear Weapons Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hans Kristensen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Proliferation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[defense budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FAS joined 48 organizations in signing a letter to United States Representatives asking them to cosign Representative Markey’s letter to members of the Super Committee. Markey’s letter urges Super Committee members to increase U.S. security by reducing spending on outdated and unaffordable nuclear weapons programs. Additionally, this support letter offers specific suggestions to Congress on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPT RevCon ends with a consensus Final Document</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arms control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Proliferation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alicia Godsberg The NPT Review Conference ended last Friday with the adoption by consensus of a Final Document that includes both a review of commitments and a forward looking action plan for nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the promotion of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.  In the early part of last week it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Picture &#8211; what is really at stake with the START follow-on Treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alicia Godsberg There is cause for cautious optimism after Presidents Obama and Medvedev signed their START follow-on Joint Understanding in Moscow last Monday – the goal of completing a legally binding bilateral nuclear disarmament agreement with verification measures is preferable to letting START expire without an agreement or without one that keeps some sort [...]]]></description>
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