Obama's Budget Eliminates New Funding for Nuclear Detection

[Angel Heart]

washingtonpost.com

Obama's Budget Eliminates New Funding for Nuclear Detection

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 7, 2009; 6:00 PM

President Obama would eliminate new funding for advanced-generation equipment to detect nuclear weapons and radiological materials at U.S. borders and ports and around New York City in his 2010 budget, homeland security officials said.

The decisions, outlined in Homeland Security Department budget documents and briefings Thursday, mark a turn away from a priority of the administration of former president George W. Bush, who with former vice president Dick Cheney championed development of new technologies that could lead to a ring of domestic sensors of weapons of mass destruction.

But the research effort -- which former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff described as a "mini-Manhattan project" -- has run into problems. Technical flaws and doubts about the integrity of scientific testing have delayed multi-billion dollar plans to buy advanced spectroscopic portal monitors, or ASPs, and automated cargo radiographic imaging systems, or CAARs, to scan for nuclear materials aboard cars, trucks, trains and cargo moving through air and land ports.

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[Yurt]

is he eliminating that budget and then looking into alternative tech to detect nukes at our borders, or is he scrapping anything that helps us to detect nukes?

 

[WillowTree]

Obama would trim $67 million in grants for bus and trucking companies and local emergency operations centers, and add $206 million to speed up immigration processing for refugees, people seeking asylum and U.S. military members applying for citizenship. The administration seeks no new funding to purchase equipment under the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, a priority of the former Bush administration, saying the DHS will shift to a new funding model for detection technology in future budgets.

2010 Budget Details: Agency by Agency (washingtonpost.com)

 

[Avatar4321]

new funding? Im not sure i am upset over that unless there is some major disaster that would happen by opposing it. What's wrong with using existing funding and existing equipment?

 

[Sherry]

Eh, no worries. The whole world loves us now.

 

[Smartt33]

washingtonpost.com

Obama's Budget Eliminates New Funding for Nuclear Detection

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 7, 2009; 6:00 PM

President Obama would eliminate new funding for advanced-generation equipment to detect nuclear weapons and radiological materials at U.S. borders and ports and around New York City in his 2010 budget, homeland security officials said.

The decisions, outlined in Homeland Security Department budget documents and briefings Thursday, mark a turn away from a priority of the administration of former president George W. Bush, who with former vice president Dick Cheney championed development of new technologies that could lead to a ring of domestic sensors of weapons of mass destruction.

But the research effort -- which former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff described as a "mini-Manhattan project" -- has run into problems. Technical flaws and doubts about the integrity of scientific testing have delayed multi-billion dollar plans to buy advanced spectroscopic portal monitors, or ASPs, and automated cargo radiographic imaging systems, or CAARs, to scan for nuclear materials aboard cars, trucks, trains and cargo moving through air and land ports.

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IMO: Obama would make us a 3rd world nation anyway. There will be no need for such protection, for we won't be a threat to anyone so we would not be attacked with such weapons.

IMO: He is killing the nation, and then he will go back to wherever he was born and create a massive government to control us. He is a traitor. IMO

 

[Chris]

Thank God for Obama.

He has saved America from Dick Cheney and George Bush.

 

[mash107]

Thank God for Obama.

He has saved America from Dick Cheney and George Bush.

By doing the very same things George Bush and Dick Cheney did...

Remember, Bush spent five times more than Clinton, and that's why we're in a recession.

Spending five times more than Bush won't correct it, genius.

 

[Xenophon]

Come on, he's just leveling the playing field.

Those terorists have to be given a chance to nuke a city, otherwise it's not 'fair.'