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DoD Nuclear Weapons
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POGO Files
POGO to Panetta: U.S. Taxpayers Shouldn't Bear the Cost of B61 Bombs Deployed in Europe The cost for extending the lives of the 200 B61 nuclear bombs deployed and stored in Europe has increased from $1.6 billion to $2.1 billion in less than a year. In light of the program’s cost, the questionable military efficacy of the deployment of these bombs, and the security vulnerabilities at a number of the NATO bases where the bombs are kept, POGO proposes that those European countries where the B61s are deployed share the increasing costs of keeping these weapons in Europe.
February 1, 2012
Podcast: Downblending and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex in Plain English How the U.S. can create jobs, increase security, save money, and generate as much as $23 billion for the Treasury. POGO's Ingrid Drake and Peter Stockton sit down to explain POGO's latest report.
September 17, 2010
POGO Asks Air Force to Hold Officials Accountable for Security Breach
September 4, 2008
POGO Letter to General C. Robert Kehler, U.S. Strategic Command regarding the Air Force denials of a security breach
September 4, 2008
Minot Misses Again. Lost Nuclear Launch Code
July 24, 2008
Related Resources
POGO in the News
Report details 'systemic' mistakes, large and small, By Matthew D LaPlante, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 17, 2009
Report: Unit fails nuke inspection, By Leo Shane, Stars and Stripes, Mideast Edition, December 17, 2008
Air Force Officer Faces Hearing For Theft, By Derek Kravitz, Washington Post Investigations, September 30, 2008
Not Again! , , Inside the Air Force, July 25, 2008
Air Force says officers fell asleep with nuke code, By Barbara Starr and Larry Shaughnessy, CNN, July 24, 2008
Air Force Missile Launch Crew Falls Asleep on the Job, By Justin Fishel, Fox News, July 24, 2008
Wynne, Moseley Sacked in USAF Shakeup, By Amy Butler and David A. Fulghum, Aviation Week, June 5, 2008
