{"id":34870,"date":"2020-02-26T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=34870"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:47:00","slug":"trillion-dollar-nuke-upgrade-not-an-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/26\/trillion-dollar-nuke-upgrade-not-an-arms-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillion Dollar Nuke &#8216;Upgrade&#8217; \u2013 Not An Arms Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Administration continues to spend billions developing and &#8220;upgrading&#8221; the nuclear weapons arsenal, claiming at the same time that it&#8217;s in response to Russian moves and that it&#8217;s &#8220;not an arms race.&#8221; Is there solid evidence to back US claims&#8230;or is this just another high-paid jobs program for the military-industrial complex? Watch today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PjTZAtGpfgM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Administration continues to spend billions developing and &#8220;upgrading&#8221; the nuclear weapons arsenal, claiming at the same time that it&#8217;s in response to Russian moves and that it&#8217;s &#8220;not an arms race.&#8221; Is there solid evidence to back US claims&#8230;or is this just another high-paid jobs program for the military-industrial complex? Watch today&#8217;s Ron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-34870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34873,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34870\/revisions\/34873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34870"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}