The US deployed a new submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon in February, which the Pentagon views as being crucial to counter Russia’s arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. There is widespread concern in the Pentagon that Russia could use a low-yield nuclear weapon on NATO’s eastern flank, a senior Department of Defense official told reporters in February. The increased budget is a part of the Pentagon’s efforts to bolster the country’s nuclear arsenal to counter Russia.
The $94 billion increase would put annual US spending on nuclear forces for an average of just under $50 billion a year. The Congressional Budget Office has projected the US nuclear forces budget will cost $494 billion from 2019 to 2028 – a 23 percent increase of its previous estimate from 2017. "Cooling towers are impressive from the outside but even more so from the inside." Courtesy David de Rueda
"This is inside the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl that was never completed," explained De Rueda.
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