Posted: 28th January 2022
By Joe Cirincione | January 26, 2022
Joe Biden. Credit: Gage Skidmore. Accessed via Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the government will spend over $634 billion on new nuclear weapons this decade. You might think that President Joe Biden would try to shift some of that money to programs that revitalize the country rather than keep it chained to obsolete Cold War weapons.
You’d be wrong.
Biden will soon release a document—the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)—laying out his administration’s vision on nuclear risks. All indications are that it will look a lot like former president Donald Trump’s.