Can we afford a trillion dollars for nuclear weapons?

[My Good Babushka]

"The expenditure is for a thirty-year program to “modernize” the US nuclear arsenal and production facilities. Although President Obama began his administration with a dramatic public commitment to build a nuclear weapons-free world, that commitment has long ago dwindled and died. It has been replaced by an administration plan to build a new generation of US nuclear weapons and nuclear production facilities to last the nation well into the second half of the twenty-first century. This plan, which has received almost no attention by the mass media, includes redesigned nuclear warheads, as well as new nuclear bombers, submarines, land-based missiles, weapons labs, and production plants. The estimated cost? $1,000,000,000,000.00—or, for those readers unfamiliar with such lofty figures, $1 trillion."
- Lawrence Wittner, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2016/03/16/trillion-dollar-question/

[stone space]

1. I've heard that we are so poor that we can't even afford college.

In that context, a trillion dollars for nukes seems like an impossible dream.

[freebrew]

3. We can outsource the designs...

to India or somewhere else that we've sent through college.

Like any country needs nuclear weapons. A ridiculous waste of capital and humans.

How long will it be that that there isn't ANY money left to squeeze from the poor.

[Bigmack]

2. ...of course we can afford it.

If we can afford the F-35, and the Littoral Combat Ships, new subs and carriers, and $500 million to train 4 Syrian fighters, we can afford one little-bitty old $Trillion for new and improved nukes.

What we can't afford, obviously, is taking care of our own people.