The Pentagon is seeking to spend more than $104 billion on modernizing the nation’s nuclear arsenal in the coming year.
The War Department’s fiscal year 2027 spending request allocates $71.4 billion for upgrading its triad of weapons systems—submarines, bombers, and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)—and the Department of Energy’s proposed annual budget earmarks $32.8 billion for weapons development.
The proposed “nuclear enterprise” budget accelerates the $75 billion annual allocation recommended by the Congressional Budget Office in 2023 to fund a 30-year, $1.5 trillion modernization of the nation’s strategic posture. If adopted, it would increase nuclear weapons spending by nearly $30 billion from FY25’s enacted budget and by more than $17 billion from this year’s authorizations….