Approaches for managing the costs of U.S. nuclear forces, 2017 to 2046 / [Michael Bennett].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Michael J., 1958- author.

Contributor:

United States. Congressional Budget Office, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures--Forecasting.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

Nuclear weapons--United States--Costs--Forecasting.

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons--United States--Finance--Planning.

Nuclear weapons--United States--Cost control.

Military planning--United States.

Military planning.

Expenditures, Public.

Nuclear weapons--Costs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 63 pages, 3 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Approaches for managing the costs of United States nuclear forces, 2017 to 2046

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, 2017.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

To assist policymakers, CBO examined nine options that could be pursued to lower or delay the costs of planned modernization. Some options would keep forces at or near the limit of 1,550 deployed warheads permitted under the New START treaty; others would reduce forces to around 1,000 deployed warheads. ose cuts to the forces would, to varying degrees, reduce the capabil- ity of future nuclear forces relative to those of forces as planned in 2017, although all components that would be retained in the options would be modernized.

Contents:

Summary.

What are the 30-year costs of planned nuclear forces?

What are some options for managing the costs of nuclear forces?

1. Current plans for nuclear forces.

Current nuclear forces and planned modernization.

Challenges for nuclear modernization plans.

2. Costs of planned nuclear forces over 30 years.

Total costs of the 2017 plan.

How this estimate differs from CBO's previous estimates of the costs of nuclear forces.

Costs of components of nuclear forces.

3. Factors to consider in evaluating changes to the force structure.

Number of warheads.

Force characteristics.

4. Options that would reduce the costs of nuclear forces.

One option that would delay modernization but still achieve the planned force structure.

Five options that would reduce delivery systems but maintain warheads at new START limits.

Three options that would reduce the number of delivery systems and warheads below new START limits. A. How CBO estimated costs.

B. Combining CBO's options.

C. Quantitative values of numbers of warheads.

Notes:

"October 2017."

"Michael Bennett... prepared the report"--About this document page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (CBO, viewed November 14, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version: Bennett, Michael J., 1958- Approaches for managing the costs of U.S. nuclear forces, 2017 to 2046.

OCLC:

1011498419