Nukes & the State Department...

From American Progress:

NATIONAL SECURITY -- ADMINISTRATION WEAKENS STATE DEPARTMENT'S ARMS CONTROL CAPABILITIES:

When Congress took its summer recess in July, the Bush administration tried to "quietly eliminate" most of the State Department's arms control offices and merge them with the nonproliferation units. Congress disagreed with the move, temporarily putting a hold in August on the reorganization.

Despite this block, the State Department has once again begun quietly reorganizing its arms control and nonproliferation bureaus, which would "effectively complete an eight-year, Republican-driven process of dismantling the State Department’s once sizable infrastructure dedicated to [nonproliferation]."

This shift away from arms control comes at the same time that Harvard professor Graham Allison and other members of the national security community agree that "if policy makers in Washington keep doing what they are currently doing about the [proliferation] threat, a nuclear terrorist attack on America is likely to occur in the next decade."

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