When It Comes To Nuclear Weapons, Tell It Like It Is

The Pentagon is committed to spending an estimated $1.7 trillion dollars of taxpayer funds over a thirty-year period to completely rebuild the US nuclear weapons complex. There are plans for land-based missiles, ballistic missile-firing submarines and missiles, new aircraft and air-launched cruise missiles, and enormous new facilities to produce plutonium components for additional nuclear warheads. The nuclear upgrade is not merely a refurbishing of aging weapons as the modernization narrative implies. It is a vast program for the reconstruction and enhancement of the entire nuclear arsenal and it is an unnecessary and wasteful diversion of federal funds to pursue an arms race with Russia and China that increases the risk of nuclear war…

David Cortright and William D. Hartung. “When it Comes to Nuclear Weapons, Tell it Like it Is.” Inkstick. December 10, 2024.