Thursday, January 09, 2014

This is over $33 billion a year

"Unless current plans change, the Departments of Defense and Energy will spend over $1 trillion over the next 30 years to maintain current [nuclear triad] systems and purchase their replacements. You got that right -- trillion with a T. This is over $33 billion a year, or three times what we are spending on nuclear systems today. As the threat goes down, we plan to spend more."