The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost to maintain and modernize nuclear forces over the next decade will be $494 billion, including $291 billion for Defense Department programs to sustain strategic and tactical strike systems as well as nuclear command, control, communications and early warning systems. In a Jan. 24 report , CBO assesses the Trump administration's fiscal year 2019 to 2028 nuclear forces blueprint, a decade-long view that accounts only for the early costs of DOD plans to modernize...
