The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation supports the optimization of national security spending by curbing wasteful, ineffective, and unnecessary spending. We promote increased oversight of the U.S. defense budget, reduced spending on nuclear weapons, and a shift away from the Cold War-era notion that military spending is worthwhile even if it doesn’t properly meet current security challenges. Doing so will save billions of valuable tax dollars as well as help to make America safer with the hard decisions our national security requires.
Recent Analysis on Security Spending
- Fact Sheet: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Modernization: Costs & Constraints January 22, 2021
- Brief Summary of Fiscal Year 2021 Defense and Energy and Water Appropriations Bills December 23, 2020
- Congress is (finally) paying attention to missile defense costs and failures December 18, 2020
- How is the National Defense Authorization Act passed? December 10, 2020
- The NDAA process, explained December 10, 2020
- Conference Outcomes of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act December 4, 2020
- FY 2021 Defense Appropriations Bill From Senate Appropriations Committee November 17, 2020
- Select Comparisons Between House and Senate FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Bills August 12, 2020
- Defense Contractors’ Coronavirus Graft July 29, 2020
- FY 2021 Defense Appropriations Bill from House Appropriations Committee July 17, 2020