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Strangelove Lives: Trump Administration Requests Largest Spending Increase for Nuclear Warheads Since 1962

Warhead research, testing and production spending already at all-time high for US

Administration requests estimated $1.8 B (18%) increase in warhead spending

(Via Press Release from Los Alamos Study Group / Greg Mello):

The administration is proposing a $1.8 billion (B) increase in NNSA nuclear "Weapons Activities" (WA) spending for FY19, to $11.017 B, exclusive of about about $318 million (M) requested for NNSA warhead administration costs (out of NNSA's overall administrative request of $423 M).

This is a 18% increase in WA (before correcting for inflation) over this year's (FY18's) estimated WA spending of $9.325 B (again, not including warhead administrative costs, which will be about $290 M in FY18).

This is the largest increase in warhead spending, both percentage-wise and in absolute (inflation-corrected) dollars, since 1962, when the US had 25,540 warheads and bombs. In 1962, the US spent $7.16 B (in 2017 dollars) on nuclear weapons research, development, testing, evaluation, and administration...

"More spending on nuclear weapons, in a time of real crisis in our society and especially our environment, reflects heart-breaking, upside-down priorities. It also reflects the depth of corruption to which we are sinking. A cabal of bloated contractors, a small army of well-placed insiders in government, pork-barrel politicians, and captured federal bureaucrats have bullied the Office of Management and Budget into approving a request for far more money than has ever been spent before on warhead design and production, even during the height of the Cold War.

"It is truly a disgusting spectacle -- in itself, in what it portends for our foreign and domestic policies, and in what it says about the state of our democracy."

• http://www.lasg.org/press/2018/press_release_12Feb2018.html

More on Nuclear Weapons / Proliferation / Nonproliferation at

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation

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