Thus, according to the forecast, the operation and modernisation of nuclear forces will cost the US $634 billion from 2021 to 2030. By comparison, the previous Congressional Budget Office report for 2019, which covered the ten-year period to 2028, estimated the total cost at $494 billion
According to REGNUM news agency referring to ABC News, the report of the Congressional Budget Office says that the cost of modernization of U.S. nuclear forces may increase significantly at the expense of additional billions of dollars to operate submarines with nuclear weapons and upgrade laboratories and production facilities for the production of nuclear weapons.
“The biggest costs are for submarine-launched ballistic missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles. There is also a $23 billion increase in spending to modernise the Department of Energy’s outdated laboratories and production facilities, which are central to the plan to replace current nuclear weapons and warheads”, – the report said.
For example, maintenance and modernisation of nuclear forces is projected to cost the US $634 billion between 2021 and 2030. By comparison, the previous Congressional Budget Office report for 2019, which covered the ten-year period to 2028, estimated the total cost at $494 billion. It is explained that such a significant increase in costs is due to the more expensive development and use of next-generation nuclear weapons, as well as inflation.