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Nuke Spending Will Top $75 Billion Per Year Over Next Decade, Mostly To Modernize Triad

Nuke Spending Will Top $75 Billion Per Year Over Next Decade, Mostly To Modernize Triad
U.S. Air Force airmen from the 576th Flight Test Squadron missile handling team install a cable raceway on an intercontinental ballistic missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 3, 2014. The missile handling team transports and handles ICBMs and performs operational check-out actions of the flight destruct ordnance package on the Minuteman III boosters. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/RELEASED)

Over the next decade, the U.S. will spend an estimated $756 billion on modernizing and maintaining its current and future nuclear forces, or about $75 billion per year, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office found.  Looking at the 10 years from 2023 to 2032, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that U.S. spending on nuclear weapons would rise 19 percent from the 2021 projection of $634 billion annually through 2030. CBO crunches nuke spending numbers every two years. …

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