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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."
- More on Nuclear Weapons / Proliferation / Nonproliferation at
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfXgu37iyI (The Doomsday Machine in Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick (1964))
- At GreenPolicy's associate, Strategic Demands / StratDem
- http://strategicdemands.com/doomsday-machine/ (The Doomsday Machine by Dan Ellsberg (2017))
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Dan Ellsberg, nuclear war planner
- Ellsberg looks back and looks forward in his new book
- Command and control of nuclear weapons
- The Doomsday Machine
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