Wait…Nukes Cost HOW Much? Featuring: Laicie Heeley Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Discretionary Defense Request for Fiscal Year 2016 (in billions of current dollars) FY 2016 Funding Request:FY 2015 Enacted:FY 2015 Funding Request:Allocated to: Department of Defense Base Budget (051) Overseas Contingency Operations (War Funding) Defense Related Activities at DOE (053) Other Defense Related Funding (054) Total Defense Spending Request (050)

Fiscal Year 2016 Overseas Contingency Operations (in billions of current dollars)

Fiscal Year 2016 Discretionary Defense Request by Service (in billions of current dollars) FY 2016 Funding Request: FY 2015 Enacted:Allocated to:Delta FY15-FY16FY16 %FY15 % Army %24.1% Navy % Air Force %27.6% Defense-Wide %18.3% Total %

FY16 Request vs. Revised Budget Control Act Caps (in billions of current dollars) FY12FY13FY14FY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21 Amended BCA Caps DoD Share FY16 Base Request n/a Delta n/a

FY16 Request vs. Revised Budget Control Act Caps (in billions of current dollars)

Defense Spending Trends Under Revised BCA Constraints (in billions of current dollars) FY12FY13FY14FY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25 PB PB PB PB PB

National Defense Trends Under Revised BCA Constraints (in billions of current dollars)

Department of Defense Topline Since 2001 (in billions of current dollars)

Request for FY16 Defense Activities at DOE (in billions of current dollars) FY 2016 Funding Request:FY 2015 Enacted:FY 2015 Funding Request:Allocated to: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Weapons Activities Federal Salaries and Expenses Naval Reactors Other Defense Activities Defense Environmental Cleanup Total DOE Defense Related Spending Request FY 2016

Request for FY16 Defense Nuclear Non-Proliferation (in millions of current dollars) FY 2016 Funding Request:FY 2015 Enacted:FY 2015 Funding Request:Allocated to: Global Threat Reduction Initiative Global Material Security International Material Protection and Cooperation Material Management and Minimization Fissile Material Disposition Non-Proliferation Construction Non-Proliferation and International Security Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Non-Proliferation Research and Development Nuclear Counterterrorism and Incident Response Program Legacy Contractor Pensions Use of Prior Year Balances 1,940.31,641.41,555.2Total Defense Nuclear Non- Proliferation Request

FY13-FY16 Defense Nuclear Non-Proliferation (in millions of current dollars)

Projected Costs for Nuclear Forces (in billions of current dollars) 2015 DOD 2015 DOE 2015 TOTAL DOD DOE TOTAL SSBNs ICBMs Bombers Tactical & Other Nuclear Command and Control 5.2n/a5.252n/a52 Labs and Support n/a6.5 n/a79 Subtotal Projected Cost Growth n/a TOTAL

Projected Costs for Nuclear Forces (in billions of current dollars)

Selected Weapons Spending  $11 billion for 57 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.  $1.6 billion for 19 V-22 Ospreys.  $1.9 billion for three Littoral Combat Ships.  $1.4 billion for the Ohio-class replacement sub.  $1.25 billion for the new Long Range Strike Bomber.  $75.2 million (up from $6.9 million) for modernization of the ICBM leg of the triad.  $36.6 million for development of a new air launched cruise missile.

What can you do, as a taxpayer, to change this?  Take action with PSR’s action alert supporting the SANE Act  Write a letter to the editor or an op-ed  Lobby your US representative and senators

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