December 7, 2015
...Estimates that go further out in time find that in the next 30 years about $1 trillion will need to be spent on modernizing the nuclear triad and sustaining the current nuclear warhead arsenal...
A Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments study stated a “bow wave” in spending will hit DoD in the mid and late 2020s. The cost of the nuclear triad costs about 3 percent-to-3.5 percent of the Defense budget until about 2019. The percentage then gradually increases to 5 percent in 2027 and then sinks down to about 3.5 percent in 2039...
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