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 to request 20 percent boost in nuclear spending
Policy Analyst Geoff Wilson spoke to the Santa Fe New Mexican about a requested increase in nuclear weapons spending. “We maintain a total nuclear weapons arsenal of some 4,000 active weapons”” said Geoff Wilson, policy analyst at the nonprofit Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, in an emailed statement. “Perhaps instead of doubling down on […]
National Security Appropriations Minibus for Fiscal Year 2020, H.R. 1158
Note: The bill contains four appropriations bills, called a “Minibus,” wrapped into one measure: Defense, Commerce-Justice-Science, Financial Services and General Government, and Homeland Security spending bills. Some highlights of the defense appropriations bill: Total funding $622.7 billion in base funding, an increase of $16.2 billion above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $88.7 billion […]
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