10% for the nuclear budget - is it too much or too low?

[Zavulon]

There is a nice article on the FAS site.

Costs for U.S. Nuclear Weapon Programs Continue to Spiral Out of Control - Federation of American Scientists

Nuclear weapons budgeting is like agreeing to buying a house without knowing the sales price, the mortgage rate, or the monthly payment.

fas.org

The authors advocate position that 1 trillion dollars in ten years (10% of total defense budget) is too expensive. That the USA can't afford those expenses. That it eats conventional weapon programs, social expenses and environmentalists' programs.

Their numbers are, I believe, more or less correct, but what's about their understanding of the national priorities? If the USA has no ability to fight and win a nuclear war with more or less acceptable losses, it means that Russia and/or China can win any conventional conflict simply by raising stakes up to the edge a nuclear war (as it had happened in Ukraine).

Should the USA refuse to play the role of a global power, or should the USA concentrate their efforts on what is really important - on achieving ability to win a nuclear war against Russia and China simultaneously?

 

[luiza]

There is a nice article on the FAS site.

Costs for U.S. Nuclear Weapon Programs Continue to Spiral Out of Control - Federation of American Scientists

Nuclear weapons budgeting is like agreeing to buying a house without knowing the sales price, the mortgage rate, or the monthly payment.

fas.org

The authors advocate position that 1 trillion dollars in ten years (10% of total defense budget) is too expensive. That the USA can't afford those expenses. That it eats conventional weapon programs, social expenses and environmentalists' programs.

Their numbers are, I believe, more or less correct, but what's about their understanding of the national priorities? If the USA has no ability to fight and win a nuclear war with more or less acceptable losses, it means that Russia and/or China can win any conventional conflict simply by raising stakes up to the edge a nuclear war (as it had happened in Ukraine).

Should the USA refuse to play the role of a global power, or should the USA concentrate their efforts on what is really important - on achieving ability to win a nuclear war against Russia and China simultaneously?

Is it all Theatre ?

All the major players know that the UAPs have control over all missile access codes and have demonstarted this both in the US and Russia .

You could therefore claim any level of expenditure--- knowing that actual defense would have to come from DE Weapons or some other technology not officially recognised but existing from reverse engineered crash retrievals.

 

[Godboy]

There is a nice article on the FAS site.

Costs for U.S. Nuclear Weapon Programs Continue to Spiral Out of Control - Federation of American Scientists

Nuclear weapons budgeting is like agreeing to buying a house without knowing the sales price, the mortgage rate, or the monthly payment.

fas.org

The authors advocate position that 1 trillion dollars in ten years (10% of total defense budget) is too expensive. That the USA can't afford those expenses. That it eats conventional weapon programs, social expenses and environmentalists' programs.

Their numbers are, I believe, more or less correct, but what's about their understanding of the national priorities? If the USA has no ability to fight and win a nuclear war with more or less acceptable losses, it means that Russia and/or China can win any conventional conflict simply by raising stakes up to the edge a nuclear war (as it had happened in Ukraine).

Should the USA refuse to play the role of a global power, or should the USA concentrate their efforts on what is really important - on achieving ability to win a nuclear war against Russia and China simultaneously?

Nukes arent a very useful deterrent if they are easily shot down. We arent trying to win a nuclear war, we are trying to prevent one by making our nukes faster and likely full of electronic counter measures to prevent another nation from shooting them out of the sky. All that costs money, hence the 10% of the budget price tag.