From LASG: Obama Administration Unveils 25-Year, $275 B Plan for Nuclear Warheads, Production Plants

Obama Administration Unveils 25-Year, $275 B Plan for Nuclear Warheads, Production Plants

Costly, Ambitious Plan at Variance with Obama’s Berlin Speech

Contact: Greg Mello, 505-265-1200, 505-577-8563

Albuquerque – Roughly contemporaneous with President Obama’s speech in Berlin expressing aspirations to nuclear disarmament, the administration released a $275 billion (B), 25-year plan (pdf) to maintain, design, and produce new nuclear warheads and build up U.S. warhead production capacity.[1]

In its proposed cost and scope of work, this week’s plan eclipses all prior planning for U.S. nuclear warheads.

Among its other features the new plan would:

• Replace all current warheads and bombs – even those currently being upgraded – with several new warheads and bombs in a so-called “3+2” stockpile plan;
• Build dozens of new design, testing, and production facilities, to cost tens of billions of dollars; and
• Require ever-rising spending at warhead production sites and labs,from about $8 B today up to about $14 B
  
  See more at: http://lasg.org/press/2013/press_release_20Jun2013.html#sthash.CglFHbv6.dpuf
  
  Los Alamos Study Group