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CBO Report Looks At Escalating Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces

Sarah Salem

Monday, April 28th, 2025

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The Congressional Budget Office projected in a report released April 24 that plans for the U.S. nuclear forces as described in the fiscal 2025 budget would cost $946 billion for the 2025-2034 period. Of the $946 billion, $817 billion is what is budgeted to “implement the plans for current and future delivery systems, warheads, command and control systems, and infrastructure as DoD and DoE have laid them out,” the report says. The other $129 billion is what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)…

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