U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY:
Science Office Grows, Nonproliferation Stalls
David Malakoff and Robert Koenig
The new science budget for the U.S. Department of Energy isn't flat, as the Bush Administration had requested. But Congress has spent much of the 2.5% increase it awarded the department on pet projects, and it squeezed programs in Russia that protect nuclear stockpiles and employ former weapons scientists.