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The ever rising cost of nuclear weapons and their plutonium wastes

Destroying and building nuclear weapons have something in common: high overruns By Walter Pincus, WP

May 5 There is a budget crisis, but the truth is we’re still planning to spend tens of billions of dollars to eliminate plutonium from thousands of dismantled, surplus nuclear weapons built during the Cold War.

Not to worry. We also are spending hundreds of billions on building newer nuclear warheads and bombs, and 21st-century submarines, bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles to keep more than 1,000 nuclear weapons at the ready.

One thing that building and destroying the weapons have in common: Their cost overruns are way beyond original estimates…….With all these complaints about wasted spending in domestic programs that help the less fortunate, why aren’t the excessive costs of nuclear weapons activities being debated in Congress? http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/destroying-and-building-nuclear-weapons-have-something-in-common-high-overruns/2014/05/05/75b2bb40-d22e-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html

May 7, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general