“This is a new situation for everyone,” Isaacs says. “Congress is like the dog that chases the car — now they’ve caught the car, what do they do?”

The best hope for resolving this deadly stalemate is to take the United States out of the equation. It is time to admit our continued military role in Afghanistan is counter-productive and that there is little reason to keep American men and women caught in the crossfire.

The public has to be assured that the system works before any more money is wasted on new sites, said Kingston Reif, director of non-proliferation programs at the Council for a Livable World. “We cannot simply move a broken system from the West Coast to the East Coast.�

“Mayor Booker and Congressman Holt have shown a true commitment to pursuing a common sense national security policy that reduces the expenditure of taxpayer dollars on wasteful and outdated nuclear weapons,� John Isaacs, executive director of Council for a Livable World, said in a statement.

The Council for a Livable World, another arms control group, lauded Feinstein for at least not cutting the nonproliferation office as much as the administration had wanted.