The Worlds Nuke Leaders

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☢️ Sky-high nuke bill

Data: Arms Control Association. Chart: Axios Visuals The U.S. will spend an estimated $1 trillion maintaining and upgrading its nuclear weapons over the next decade — more per year than we spend on the State Department, NASA and the CDC combined, Axios' Colin Demarest reports from a new Congressional Budget Office estimate. ? What we're watching: Where today's obsession with cheap mass (drones and artillery shells, for example) clashes with revered and rarely used stockpiles. Nuclear acquisition programs represent almost 12% of the Pentagon's planned buying costs over the next decade, according to CBO. Keep reading.