The US is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons against another nation.<\/p>\n
Seventy years after melting down Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US is planning to spend over $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal over the next 30 years, a new report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00c5\u201cOver the next thirty years, the United States plans to spend approximately $1 trillion maintaining the current arsenal, buying replacement systems, and upgrading existing nuclear bombs and warheads,\u201d said the report by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The costs will not be distributed evenly across the coming years.<\/p>\n The CNS report adds that \u00c5\u201cprocurement of replacement platforms and associated warheads will peak during a four to six year window, sometime after 2020\u201d during which Washington will devote as much as three percent of its annual military budget to its nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n The funding is comparable to spending levels used for modernizing US nuclear arsenal under former president Ronald Reagan during the 1980s arms race with the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n The estimated figures by CNS\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s year-long study are consistent with those of Congressional Budget Office which predicted last month that the US would spend $355 billion over the next decade on its nuclear weapons complex.<\/p>\n The US is considered one of the largest possessors of nuclear weapons in the world and the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons against another nation.<\/p>\n Based on recent numbers from Federation of Atomic Scientists (FAS), the US currently holds a stockpile of 4,650 nuclear warheads, 2,130 of which are operational. In addition, Washington has 2,700 retired nuclear warheads that are yet to be dismantled.<\/p>\n AN\/HJ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n