Here's a follow-up to our recent story on Obama's sort-of-plan to move control of the US nuclear weapons complex from the Department of Energy to the Pentagon, and
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Via US Sen. Jeff Bingaman's Office, a letter from New Mexico's Congressional delegation to Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag opposing the move:
Hm..."Could" is the operative word, there.
Follow that logic? The Pentagon would cut the labs' science budget, therefore they'd have no choice but to start setting off nuclear weapons again, which would lead to an international incident.
The rest after the cut.