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 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
- 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
- Op-Ed: Biden Should Sink This Proposed Nuclear Weapon April 20, 2021
- 3 Reasons Why the United States Doesn’t Need ICBMs February 23, 2021
