Former Rep.: If U.S. Can’t Afford Modernization, ‘We’re in Big Trouble’

摘要

The United States must upgrade its nuclear deterrent and the $600 billion-$1 trillion 30-year price tag to modernizernall three legs of the triad included in the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review should be manageable, NationalrnDefense Panel member and former Congressman Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) told NS&D Monitor this week on thernsidelines of a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the QDR. “I don’t think we can afford not to do it,” hernsaid. “If we’re at the point where we cannot afford that, we’re in big trouble. That is not that much money by federalrnbudget standards, given what’s at stake.”