U.S. Preparing To Cut Nuclear Weapons And Investing In New Programs

Nuclear Plan Shows Cuts and Massive Investments -- FAS Strategic Security Blog

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has sent Congress the FY 2011 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP) with new information about what the administration plans to spend on maintaining and modernizing nuclear weapons and facilities over the next 15-20 years.

FAS and UCS got hold of the unclassified sections of the plan and have analyzed what the Obama administration’s first nuclear weapons management plan tells us about how the Prague speech vision will be translated into national nuclear weapons policy. The SSMP consists of five sections (three are unclassified):

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More News On U.S. Nuclear Plans And Strategies

Fewer Nukes, More Cash: Energy Dep’t Wants $175 Billion for Weapons Complex -- The Danger Room
U.S. Details Planned Nuclear Stockpile Cut, Funding Priorities -- Global Security Newswire
DOE plan to cut nuke weapons by 40 percent -- UPI
NNSA's security reform: a daring move or just good sense? -- Knox News
DOE Plan Reduces Nuclear Arsenal By Up to 40 Percent But Results in Few Savings or Reductions in Size of Weapons Complex -- Union Of Concerned Scientists

My Comment: Sighhhh .... keeping a nuclear stockpile is not cheap.