TRUMP BUDGET REQUESTS MASSIVE INCREASE TO NUCLEAR SPENDING If it was not clear already, the Trump administration’s enormous new $740 billion defense budget request makes it crystal clear — they are fully committed to increasing the role of nuclear weapons in our national security policy. While funding for key conventional programs decreases under the request, the National […]
Why Does Trump Want to Spend Billions on New Nukes?
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle spoke with The Daily Beast about President Trump’s proposed increase in the nuclear weapons budget. “It would be remarkable if NNSA could get to 20 pits per year,” Phil Coyle, a nuclear expert with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C., told The Daily Beast. But in […]
Fiscal Year 2021 Defense Spending Briefing Book
President Trump’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget requests $740.5 billion for annual defense budget authority, a total that includes Department of Defense, Department of Energy nuclear weapons plans and a few other programs. Depending on which budget numbers one uses, that is a small increase of about $2.5 billion from the Fiscal Year 2020 budget […]
Trump proposes 25 percent bump in nuke spending
Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in The Santa Fe New Mexican about President Trump’s massive requested nuclear weapons spending increase. “Taxpayers in 2020 should not be forced to pay for a ticket back to nuclear weapons policies of the 1980s,” John Tierney, executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said in […]
Trump team was right to extend Iran deal waivers
By Samuel Hickey On January 30, the Trump Administration extended four nuclear waivers allowing Russia, China and the UK to continue their work to restrain Iran’s nuclear program. While this move is good for American security, there are Iran hawks in the Senate who advocate rescinding all waivers related to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan […]
