Should the Nuclear Triad Be Saved? December 25, 2013 By Mark Thompson The U.S. spent two generations building a nuclear triad of bombers, land-based ICBMs and missile-firing submarines to prevail in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. A generation ago, the Soviet Union went away, and we continued maintaining the triad on some kind […]
Center for Public Integrity Story on $355B Plan for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Quotes Kingston Reif
Obama administration understated nuclear weapons costs December 24, 2013 By R. Jeffrey Smith The Obama administration’s plan for maintaining and upgrading the U.S. nuclear arsenal will likely cost around 66 percent more over the next decade than senior Pentagon officials have predicted, according to a new assessment by the independent Congressional Budget Office. Under the […]
Reuters Story on $355B Cost of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Plan Over the Next Decade Quotes Kingston Reif
U.S. nuclear weapon plans to cost $355 billion over a decade: CBO report December 20, 2013 By David Alexander (Reuters) – The Obama administration’s plans for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, including modernization of bombs, delivery systems and laboratories, will cost the country about $355 billion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said […]
Defense Legislation Moves Closer to Senate Vote
“Congressional leaders are coming to realize that Pentagon spending is coming down as the wars are coming to an end. Smart strategy has to be employed to make sure we reduce spending in the right way,” said Laicie Heeley, director of defense policy at the Center. “In future years, appropriators have to begin to reshape spending to address 21st century threats and not those of the past.”
New Report Finds Multiple Paths to Nuclear Reductions
“Since the end of the Cold War, the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile has dropped steadily – from about 22,000 warheads to roughly 5,000 today,” said Reif. “The best kept secret of U.S. nuclear policy is that most of these reductions haven’t been codified in treaties.”
