{"id":137151,"date":"2018-09-12T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/because-of-course-trump-wants-more-nukes-and-less-nuke-worker-safety.html"},"modified":"2018-09-13T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T14:13:08","slug":"because-of-course-trump-wants-more-nukes-and-less-nuke-worker-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/because-of-course-trump-wants-more-nukes-and-less-nuke-worker-safety.html","title":{"rendered":"Because of course Trump wants more nukes and less nuke worker safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald is ramping up production of more nuclear warheads, while at the same time slashing the size <i>and<\/i> the authority of the agency tasked with making sure nuclear warhead production is safe.<\/p>\n<p>Because of course he is.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/white-house-hobbles-nuclear-weapons-safety-agency\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/zwxXPeECWdScz1bTAlEurUmmSK8awh8KvRkZcpqm1rmV9D2gTnP3a3kAQpRiwq8-NOL23_os3pDn8GlbJHFhfLDjddPwNDyEUbBw83mE9tj-flxe1uj0fXZBcySkYkmBxaiPbTShqsV9ti7Clwo=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/white-house-hobbles-nuclear-weapons-safety-agency\/\">White House Hobbles Nuclear Weapons Safety Agency<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAs Trump calls for new bomb production, the administration cuts safety board access to nuclear facilities<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/g4uJCncqaCb\">Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald is ramping up production of more nuclear warheads, while at the same time slashing the size and the authority of the agency tasked with making sure nuclear warhead production is safe. Because of course he is. White House Hobbles Nuclear Weapons Safety Agency As Trump calls for new bomb production, the administration cuts safety &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/because-of-course-trump-wants-more-nukes-and-less-nuke-worker-safety.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because of course Trump wants more nukes and less nuke worker safety&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137165,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,349,385,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-military","category-safety","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nuclear-weapons-plant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45607,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/looks-like-nuke-times-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":137151,"position":0},"title":"Looks Like Nuke Times Again","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 30-Sep-14 9:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So what's most disturbing in this article?- A major radiation incident at the WIPP facility, leading to a shutdown and growing backlog of nuclear waste storage?- Investigations into same that indicate all sorts of problems with the operations at WIPP?- Proposals to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9979,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/look_at_me_look_at_me.html","url_meta":{"origin":137151,"position":1},"title":"Look at me!  LOOK AT ME!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Oct-06 6:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because if there's one thing an egotist or a little cannot abide, it's being ignored (or falling off the front pages of the papers) for too long. 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