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摘要

The Congressional Budget Office recently projected the costs, over the next decade, of modernizing, operating, and sustaining the US strategic "triad"-nuclear-weapon-capable bombers, ICBMs, and submarines. As the large graphic shows, CBO expects costs to double, rising from $9.8 billion this year to $20.8 in 2022. The increase, however, is not uniform. As seen in the series of three smaller graphics, spending on sustainment and operations remains flat. The big growth comes in modernization, with the Navy's SSBNs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles consuming as many Pentagon dollars as the Air Force's ICBMs and bombers combined. Total expenditure on the undersea "boomers" over 10 years: $82 billion.