Americas

US House holds up funding for new nukes

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-06-21 01:20

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a plan Tuesday to halt funding for the development of a new generation of nuclear warheads, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

It also called on the Bush administration to provide a post- Cold War strategy that would detail the future size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, according to the report.

The plan, which eliminated 82 million U.S. dollars for continuing development of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program, also reduced spending for the upgrade and modernization of facilities in the nuclear weapons complex that are involved in refurbishing deployed bombs and warheads, storing older ones and dismantling those no longer needed.

Overall, the House cut the Bush administration's budget request for nuclear weapons programs by 632 million dollars to 5.9 billion dollars.