Nation’s bloated nuclear spending comes under fire

Associated Press ^ | Sep 13, 2013 12:10 PM EDT | Jeri Clausing and Matthew Daly

[Olog-hai]

Virtually every major project under the National Nuclear Security Administration’s oversight is behind schedule and over budget—the result, watchdogs and government auditors say, of years of lax accountability and nearly automatic annual budget increases for the agency responsible for maintaining the nation’s nuclear stockpile.

The NNSA has racked up $16 billion in cost overruns on 10 major projects that are a combined 38 years behind schedule, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reports. Other projects have been canceled or suspended, despite hundreds of millions of dollars already spent, because they grew too bloated. …

[LucianOfSamasota]

Shouldn’t matter soon.

Obama’s ITCHING to get rid of the remaining 30% of our nuclear stockpile - and we obviously won’t need nuclear infrastructure when we are a non-nuclear power.

[pabianice]

[buckalfa]

Makes you wonder about the reliability of the nation's nuclear weapon arsenal.

[Gator113]

Rotate, rotate, rotate. Send ‘em to Iran and then send the next batch to anyone that complains.

Life’s challenges aren’t really that tough. ;>)

[rottndog]

"Unfortunately for the taxpayer ... cost overruns, scheduled delays and technical failures are the rule, not the exception," said McCaskill, D-Mo. "We need to find a better way to do this because we can't just afford the status quo anymore."

Funny how they only have that attitude with defense related spending, and NOTHING ELSE in the federal budget can be cut.

[Texas Fossil]

First Paragraph of the Constitution:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

How can the authority to provide weapons be blured? Looks pretty clear to me that from the beginning the founders understood.

[familyop]

It’s probably mostly spent on “progressive” social campaigns and plots against our only real ally in the Middle East anyway. From this point on, bipartisan political regulator folks would probably see to it that our U.S. nuclear weapons are only used to support Syria, Iran and Russia.