Military spending

A trillion dollar program: Pentagon poised to approve work on modernizing nuclear-armed ICBMs

The U.S. will likely spend more than $20 trillion over the next 30 years on defence, so $1 trillion is only a small fraction of that

“It’s also important to put these costs in context,” Harrison said. “The U.S. will likely spend more than $20 trillion over the next 30 years on defence, so $1 trillion is only a small fraction of that,” Harrison said.

Still, the bow wave’s cost is likely to force the Air Force to delay the ICBM program or cancel it in favour of modifying the existing missiles because the service has higher priorities, predicted Kingston Reif, an analyst with the Arms Control Association.