US to Spend $1 Trillion on Nukes (over the next 30 years)

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“Over the next thirty years, the United States plans to spend approximately $1 trillion maintaining the current arsenal, buying replacement systems, and upgrading existing nuclear bombs and warheads,” according to the report, Trillion Dollar Nuclear Triad: US Strategic Modernization over the Next 30 Years, which was released by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) on Tuesday.

These costs will not be spread out evenly over the long time period. Instead, the authors of the report — Jon B. Wolfsthal, Jeffrey Lewis and Marc Quint — conclude that “Procurement of replacement platforms and associated warheads will peak during a four to six year window, sometime after 2020.”

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The new report is based on a year-long study CNS undertook to estimate the cost of maintaining and modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal. As the author’s note in the report, “The United States government does not know with any accuracy how much it spends annually on its nuclear deterrent, or how much it will cost to replace the current [nuclear] triad.” Because of this, the authors contend, U.S. lawmakers and policymakers have been able to avoid a robust debate on the strategic utility of maintaining and modernizing the nuclear triad amid an increasingly tight fiscal climate.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/us-to-spend-1-trillion-on-nukes/

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Pennies. We need those nukes for defending the planet against large rocks and lizard aliens. A friend of mine has been training flying monkeys in the Southern California desert that were descended from those captured during the Nazi's attempted assault on the California coast during WWII. Could be true. Could be the basis for a novel he is writing. Could be drug induced hallucinations. Could be all of the above.

[willandnaz 0]

Pennies. We need those nukes for defending the planet against large rocks and lizard aliens. A friend of mine has been training flying monkeys in the Southern California desert that were descended from those captured during the Nazi's attempted assault on the California coast during WWII. Could be true. Could be the basis for a novel he is writing. Could be drug induced hallucinations. Could be all of the above.

HE'S RIGHT! UPGRADE THE SYSTEMS, DAMN IT!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

HE'S RIGHT! UPGRADE THE SYSTEMS, DAMN IT!

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