GenSeneca
Well-Known Member
Maintaining the current stockpile is also taking money we don't have, so your point is moot.one time costs still takes money we don't have.
Eliminate Earmarks = $15.9 billionif there is a way to use the existing budget to maintain what is to remain and disassemble the others then it becomes worth considering. but then you need to do something with all that nuclear material and that will cost money. a lot less if you use Yucca Mtn but you know how certain people feel about that.
Assuming you are correct and that it costs 5 times as much to dismantle as it does to maintain, we are looking at a cost of $23 million per weapon cut from the arsenal.
15,900,000,000 / 23,000,000 = 691units could be dismantled the first year with some money left over. Since we are no longer paying for upkeep costs on 691 units, we would have an annual savings of $3,178,600,000.