US policies increasing nuclear tensions: Analyst

The Obama administration’s policies towards the world’s nuclear powers in addition to the global economic crisis are creating a dangerous situation of increased tensions between the nuclear states, a US policy analyst says.

Press TV asked Bill Jones, the Washington bureau chief for Executive Intelligence Review, about the Congressional Budget Office report that says President Barack Obama’s plans for the US nuclear weapons complex will cost the country about $355 billion over the next decade.
“What you’re seeing in terms of the spending is a symptom of a graver crisis which represents the real danger, that is the danger of the increased tensions between the nuclear powers because of the economic crisis that the world is in and because of the policies now being pursued also by this (US) administration in regard to the other nuclear powers, Jones said.
“It’s not the cost that is so unnerving for me, it’s rather the directionality of the policy,” he added.
“What’s concerning is the fact that the world is now plunging into a period of grave economic crisis in which the major nuclear powers are now more and more standing at loggerheads with each other over a variety of issues.”
The United States has hundreds of nuclear missiles that have stood war-ready for decades in underground silos along remote stretches of the country, according to an article written by Associated Press national security writer Robert Burns.

from PressTv