Over the next decade, the United States plans to spend $494 billion on its nuclear forces, or about $50 billion a year, according to a 2019 Congressional Budget Office report. This estimate is a 23 percent increase from the CBO’s projected cost at the end of the Obama administration. Over the next three decades, total modernization plans could cost as much as $1.5-$2 trillion.
Recent Analysis on Nuclear Weapons Spending
- Summary: Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 7900) July 26, 2022
- Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book March 30, 2022
- Final Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 Defense and Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bills (H.R. 2471) March 21, 2022
- Final Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1605) December 8, 2021
- Senate Appropriations Committee Version of FY 2022 Defense Appropriations Bill November 3, 2021
- 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
- Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4350) September 13, 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
