America’s Nukes Are Getting Old – and Cost $40 Billion a Year to Maintain
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By Rob Garver
February 15, 2017
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In order to maintain a stockpile of aging nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, the U.S. government will need to spend an average of $40 billion per year over the next decade, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office.
The report, a biennial review last completed in 2015, finds that “The nation’s current nuclear forces are reaching the end of their service life ... Over the next two decades, essentially all of those nuclear delivery systems and weapons would have to be refurbished or replaced with new systems to continue operating. Consequently, the Congress will need to make decisions about what nuclear forces the United States should field in the future and thus about the extent to which the nation will pursue nuclear modernization plans.”
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