{"id":29602,"date":"2021-03-10T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/cold-war-era-weapon-100bn-us-plan-to-build-new-nuclear-missile-sparks-concern"},"modified":"2021-03-10T20:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:00:22","slug":"cold-war-era-weapon-100bn-us-plan-to-build-new-nuclear-missile-sparks-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29602","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cold war-era weapon&#8217;: $100bn US plan to build new nuclear missile sparks concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say the GBSD project is outdated and the result of lobbying rather than a clear sense of what it will achieve<\/p>\n<p>The US is building a new $100bn nuclear missile based on a set of flawed and outdated assumptions, a new report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/issues\/icbm-information-project\/\">Federation of American Scientists<\/a> (FAS) will say.<\/p>\n<p>The report, due to be published next week, will argue the planned ground-based strategic deterrent (GBSD) is being driven by intense industry lobbying and politicians from states that will benefit most from it economically, rather than a clear assessment of the purpose of the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/cold-war-era-weapon-100bn-us-plan-to-build-new-nuclear-missile-sparks-concern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say the GBSD project is outdated and the result of lobbying rather than a clear sense of what it will achieveThe US is building a new $100bn nuclear missile based on a set of flawed and outdated assumptions, a new report by the Federation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,441,419,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29603,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602\/revisions\/29603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}