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 Defense Spending
- Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 2792) October 21, 2021
- Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4350) as Passed October 7, 2021
- Biden’s nuclear agenda in trouble as Pentagon hawks attack September 23, 2021
- Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4350) September 13, 2021
- Biden Defense Request Compared to Previous Annual Budgets June 25, 2021
- Fact Sheet: Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles Are Wasteful June 24, 2021
- U.S. Navy Funds New Submarine-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile Biden Called “A Bad Idea” June 2, 2021
- Fiscal Year 2022 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book June 1, 2021
- Initial Reactions to the FY 2022 Defense Budget May 28, 2021
- STRATCOM Commander Makes a Misleading Sales Pitch before Congress May 5, 2021
