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
- 3 Reasons Why the United States Doesn’t Need ICBMs February 23, 2021
- Modernizing the Triad February 23, 2021
- Fact Sheet: The W93 Warhead January 28, 2021
- Missile Defense Costs Soar Out of This World January 26, 2021
- 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
- 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
