The Lifecycle Costs of Nuclear Forces: A Preliminary Assessment
Washington DC: Defense Budget Project, 1994. presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [8], ii, 46 pages. Footnotes. Tables. Four page press release laid in. Steven Kosiak is a nationally-recognized expert on the US defense and international affairs budgets, with extensive experience in national security planning and budgeting. Areas of expertise include the national security planning and budgeting processes within the Executive Office of the President, as well as the programs and budgets of the Department of Defense, and the Department of State and other international affairs Agencies. Mr. Kosiak served for five-and-a-half years as the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) Associate Director for Defense and International Affairs, the senior White House official for national security and foreign policy budgeting. In that position, he was responsible for overseeing the budgets of the Departments of Defense, State/USAID, Treasury (International), and Veterans Affairs, as well as the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Intelligence Community and a range of smaller agencies. This analysis provides an estimate of the total lifecycle' costs of U.S. nuclear forces. The lifecycle costs of nuclear forces can be defined in a number of different ways. This analysis considers two approaches. The first is to include the total amount of money that the United States has spent on its nuclear forces to date, plus the amount of money that it must yet spend to clean up the environmental contamination caused by past nuclear weapons programs. The second approach is to include the costs of sustaining nuclear forces of a given size over the long run, expressed in terms of average annual costs. The first approach is useful because it provides an inclusive accounting of the nuclear weapons-related costs already incurred by the United States (if not yet necessarily paid, as in the case of environmental cleanup activities), while the usefulness of the second approach is that it creates a baseline from which the costs of future U.S. nuclear forces can be estimated. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Nuclear Forces, LIfecycle Cost, Nuclear Weapons, Strategic Forces, Nuclear Warheads, Civil Defense, Ballistic Missile Defense, Environmental Cleanup, Operations and Maintenance, Special Operations, ICBM, SLBM, Weapon Systems, Military Procurement, De
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