U.S. Threat Reduction Programs to Receive More Than $1 Billion in FY10 -- Global Security NewswireWASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama has signed spending measures that provide more than $1 billion in fiscal 2010 funding devoted to three high-profile threat reduction programs at the Defense and Energy departments (see GSN, Dec. 22).
The $636 billion defense appropriations legislation, one of the last remaining spending measures for the budget year that began Oct. 1, was inked Monday. It allocates $424 million for the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the Pentagon effort to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and their associated infrastructure in former Soviet Union states and beyond.
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My Comment: Cleaning up our mess .... who thought it would be so expensive.
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