{"id":646,"date":"2007-03-13T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/03\/frida-berrigan-gold-star-for-new-nukes.html"},"modified":"2007-03-13T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T11:51:00","slug":"frida-berrigan-gold-star-for-new-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/03\/frida-berrigan-gold-star-for-new-nukes.html","title":{"rendered":"Frida Berrigan: Gold Star for New Nukes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>At the beginning of March, the National Nuclear Security Administration announced the winner<\/a> of the so-called “Reliable Replacement Warhead<\/a>” competition that pitted the nuclear laboratories against each other. Lawrence Livermore won out against its long-time rival Los Alamos. If all goes according to plan, the Berkeley-based lab’s design will eventually end up as submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

Still, NNSA administrator Thomas D’Agostino insisted that the new warhead “is not about starting a new nuclear arms race.”<\/a> But what else could it possibly be about? In the April 2007 issue of Sojourners<\/em><\/a> I\u2019ll catch you up on the new nuclear surge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Frida Berrigan<\/strong> is a senior research associate at the New School University\u2019s World Policy Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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