Nine House Democrats are protesting the Pentagon's planned $46 million cut to the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program. In a letter sent yesterday to President Bush , the representatives argue that CTR funding should be increased, not decreased. "The United States has led the world in seeking to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and materials and other weapons of mass destruction, and CTR has been our flagship," the letter states. According to an internal Pentagon budget document approved last...
