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Related: About this forumTYT: Amazing News About Nukes That Will Also Make You Sh*t Your Pants
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today that the Pentagon is aiming to invest about 10 percent more over the next five years to upgrade the nation's nuclear deterrent, following reviews that uncovered "systemic problems" in the system.
Hagel said the U.S. was "probably looking at a 10 percent increase" in spending, according to Reuters, which said internal and external reviews have made some 100 recommendations on improving the nuclear forces.
"The root cause has been lack of sustained focus, attention and resources, resulting in a pervasive sense that a career in a nuclear enterprise offers too few opportunities for growth and advancement," the defense secretary said at a Pentagon news conference.* Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University), Dave Rubin (Rubin Report) and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) break it down.
*Read more here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/14/364042684/hagel-to-announce-billions-in-upgrades-to-nuclear-deterrent
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TYT: Amazing News About Nukes That Will Also Make You Sh*t Your Pants (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Nov 2014
OP
It's where they transfer the screwups too. It's a dead end job. Everyone knows nukes are going away.
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2014
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L0oniX
(31,493 posts)1. "opportunities for growth and advancement" Nice motive! WTF
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)2. It's where they transfer the screwups too. It's a dead end job. Everyone knows nukes are going away.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)3. They didn't have enough wrenches?
You know, the local Sears has Craftsman wrenches, both standard and metric. What do they need, wrenches sized in fractions of a cubit? Maybe some nice adjustable wrenches would do.