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Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities
Stephen I. Schwartz, Deepti Choubey
Carnegie Endowment Report, January 2009
http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=22601&prog=zgp&proj=znpp
The United States spent over $52 billion on nuclear weapons and related programs in fiscal year 2008, but only 10 percent of that went toward preventing a nuclear attack through slowing and reversing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. That is the main finding of Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities, a new study that uses publicly available documents and extensive interviews with government officials and experts to calculate the U.S. nuclear security "budget." The United States has never tracked nuclear weapons-related spending comprehensively, hindering effective oversight and weighing of priorities in nuclear security policy.
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