page_title: Renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States
section_title: Budget projection
hierarchical_section_title: Renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States / Budget projection
caption_attribution_description: Minuteman 3 missile launch Hi-res version from: DOD Defense Visual Information Center Caption of the photo was: LGM-30 Minuteman III VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- An LGM-30 Minuteman III missile soars in the air after a test launch. The Minuteman is a strategic weapon system using a ballistic missile of intercontinental range. (U.S. Air Force photo) Updated source URL: http://www.af.mil/News/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000597905 Direct link: http://media.dma.mil/2003/Aug/19/2000597905/-1/-1/0/030813-F-8888U-005.JPG Original filename: 030813-F-8888U-005.JPG
context_page_description: The renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States is the modernization, refurbishment and rebuilding of the nuclear arsenal of the United States of America.
  Facilities for maintenance and refurbishment of U.S. nuclear weapons became dilapidated after the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The United States planned to spend about a trillion dollars over thirty years to rectify this shortfall, which some saw as a reversal from President Barack Obama's 2009 Prague speech that laid out his agenda for further nuclear disarmament, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday Clock closer to midnight to highlight this development.
context_section_description: Analysts at the Monterey Institute of International Studies have projected likely expenditure on the program, based upon section 1251 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 and other official briefings.  Their summary breaks down the 30 year budget in billions of dollars as follows:
  350 for the National Nuclear Security Administration which runs the facilities which research, develop and produce nuclear weapons
  240 to 270 for maintenance of the existing triad of bombers, land-based missiles and submarine-launched missiles
  120 for command, control and communications
  20 to 120 for a successor to the Minuteman missile.
  77 to 102 for Ohio-class submarines to carry missiles
  55 to 100 for a new strategic bomber to succeed the B2
  10 to 20 for a Long Range Stand Off Weapon LRSO standoff missile
  making a total of $872 billion to $1.082 trillion. $348 billion have already been committed for the first ten years of the program.
  In 2017, the Congressional Budget Office produced a report analysing the planned expenditure and its estimate of the total cost over 30 years was $1.2 trillion.  This was before any additional capacity which might result from the Nuclear Posture Review of the Trump administration, which was expected to be completed in early 2018.
caption: test launch of a Minuteman III missile
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