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Air Force

New CBO Estimate Puts Nuclear Force Operations And Modernization Costs At $400 Billion Over Decade

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 14th, 2017

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New CBO Estimate Puts Nuclear Force Operations And Modernization Costs At $400 Billion Over Decade

Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana (SSBN 743). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The projected cost to operate, maintain and modernize America’s nuclear forces during the next 10 years is $400 billion, an average of $40 billion annually, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).CBO's new estimate of nuclear force plans for the departments of Defense and Energy is based on FY ’17 budget requests. The new estimate is 15 percent higher than the previous 10-year estimate provided in January 2015, which put the cost at $348 billion, CBO says in the congressionally-mandated…

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