“The Pentagon is hell-bent on securing funds to develop a brand new suite of nuclear weapons to replace its Cold War-era arsenal, with the federal government projecting expenditures of $190 billion through 2030 to modernize powerful missiles, warheads, bombers, and submarines originally conceived at the height of a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.”

Sara Sirota – from the article Nuclear Weapons Skeptics Face Turbulent Path to Rein in the Pentagon, The Intercept, July 1, 2021