Comment:  Breaking Defense Analysis of the Congressional Budget  Office's recent report:   https://www.afmissileers.org/In-the-News/13491717

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"America’s nuclear arsenal to cost $946B over next decade, government report reveals"

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/americas-nuclear-arsenal-to-cost-946b-over-next-decade-government-report-reveals/

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By   AARON MEHTA on April 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM

The 25 percent cost increase from the previous edition, released in 2023, amounts to $190 billion. That change stems largely from CBO estimating an increased cost on projects, including from the Sentinel ICBM effort, which Pentagon officials have said is 81 percent above its baseline cost estimate; however, some increase costs are the result of a shift of two years in the time period covered, as the previous report covered 2023-2032.

Correction 4/25/25 at 2L57 pm ET: This story has been updated with the correct percentage of cost overruns on the Sentinel program. 

An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test Oct. 29, 2020, at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. (US Air Force photo by Michael Peterson)