Sen. Feinstein: Cut the Nuclear Weapons Budget

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, as Chair of the Senate Energy & Water Appropriations subcommittee, has the ability to suggest some important cuts in the bloated US nuclear weapons budget. Her committee is meeting this week, so the time to contact her is now!

Nuclear weapons funding for 2013 proposed by the Obama administration is lower than many people expected, although it is still an increase. Spending billions of dollars for new nuclear weapons facilities and life extension programs for obsolete nuclear weapons would not only be wasteful financially, but it also sends a message to countries around the world that the United States plans to continue relying on nuclear weapons for decades to come.

Take action today by asking Senator Feinstein to support a forward-looking budget that directs us to a world free of nuclear weapons, not backwards toward Cold War arms races.