Estimated 1998 Spending on U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Weapons-Related Programs

• Department of Defense

• Strategic nuclear forces — $7.5
• Tactical nuclear and dual-capable forces — $1.0
• Command, control, communications, and intelligence — $6.0
• Operation and maintenance — $4.0
• Research and development — $.400
• Defense Special Weapons Agency — $.300
  

• Department of Energy

  • Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program — $4.3
  • Other defense programs (safeguards and security, intelligence,
    verification and arms control technology, nonproliferation,
    security investigations, fissile material control and disposition,
    worker transition) — $.968
  • Naval nuclear propulsion — $.335
    

  Subtotal operational nuclear forces — $24.8

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• Department of Defense

  • Defense Environmental Restoration Account — $.500
    

• Department of Energy

• Environmental restoration and waste management — $5.4

• Department of Justice

Radiation Exposure Compensation Act payments —$.030

• Subtotal cold war legacies — $5.9

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  • Department of Defense
    • National and theater missile defense — $3.8
      

    • Cooperative Threat Reduction — $.400
      

    • On-Site Inspection Agency — $.040 (Now Defense Threat Reduction Agency)
      

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    Total Estimated 1998 Nuclear Weapons Budget — $35.1²

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    Notes

    ¹ Adapted from Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (Brookings Institution Press, 1998).[Back]

    ² This figure is 14 percent of all appropriated spending for "national defense." Not included are a portion of the Navy's costs for strategic antisubmarine warfare, the Bureau of Export Administration (Department of Commerce), Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Department of Labor), the U.S. Customs Service (Department of the Treasury), and the U.S. Geological Survey (Department of the Interior).[Back]

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  • Arms Control and Disarmament Agency — $.035
    

  • Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board — $.020
    

  • International Atomic Energy Agency (U.S. payments to) — $.050
    

  • Congressional oversight — $.050
    

    Subtotal defensive and other programs — $4.4