Elon Musk Can Find His $2-Trillion Federal Spending Cut in Nuclear Weapons

Elon Musk can find its 2 trillion dollar expenditure in nuclear weapons

By And Vergano Edited Jeanna Bryner

Foryly fortunateElon Musk has now a strange opportunity to deliver in one of his signatures Excessive promises. From the newly created white house Cost cuttingAll the musks must be made to recommend one of the most crooked, wasteful and dangerous The U.S. government planned programs, that American scientific has renewed push to expel.

Last November Musk established his great goal Government Efficiency Department (DOGE)Meme-coin name His cost cutting officehis reward for the Trump campaign. Under the DOGE, Musk said Cut $ 2 trillion From federal budget. That’s a greater amount Space Mogul It is now worth $ 400 million The richest man on earth. (Then Musk reduced $ 2 trillion “The best result. “)

Luckily for him, there is A large fat target With this label of this price, it is already sitting in Uncle Sam’s shopping cart and cut to cut: Nuclear weapons. In 2010 Trump’s Nemesis, then President Barack Obama proposed the US to “modernization” in the US of the U.S. land, “modernization” in more than Sea-based weapons. Almost unnoticed outside the national security circles, $ 1 trillion of the initiative If the sticker has prices almost doubled And, as the National University of America wrote Sharon Water Secaler as security, “Is it possible Increase even more 2050. Until the year the alleged end date for modernization. “

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Musk, his new leader, Trump, called January, to make talks with China and Russia to reduce nuclear weapons. While you are talking Davos, the Swiss World Economic Forum. “They are spent on nuclear sums of money, and the destructive ability is something we don’t want to talk today, because you don’t want to hear,” Trump said. “It’s depression”.

Trump is right. DOGE should listen. Have a noble knights to kill government debris. We don’t need more than $ 140 billion Ballistic missiles (ICBMS)) Plant west west, jumping their overall cost 37 tissue Last year, the rules of critical budget activating “critical violation”. An anti-budget prices as well as the National Security Administration made efforts to manufacture more plutonium “preferable“Pure metal spheres made from Plutonian, compress nuclear explosions, we have already many, in old weapons. Through the delays, the costs of the pit facility have jumped As much as $ 37 billionInitial estimates approximately. “I know it’s a lot of money” Said the NNSA administrator Jill HryLast April. “However, it is much safer when it comes to the last projects,” added, adds six more budgets to nuclear reactors 73.2 billion plus highway projects in the US

I don’t know why these numbers are calm.

Aside from the costs, the bottom line is more nuclear weapons safe less safeThe main lesson of the Cold Weapon Weapon race. Amnesia seem to have exceeded consciousness A threat to humanity nuclear war- Hundreds of dead deadafter Nuclear winter starving. Would also affect a limited nuclear war Global hungry.

However, China catches his nuclear forces, maybe more than 900 weapons Fears of a first strike in the US It has its modernized weapons. Meanwhile, Russia has signposted Build a nuclear weapon head with Expiration of the coming de New Home Treatythat extends the two nations to 1,550 nuclear wars. The conditions are adult Trump “Offers”, which achieves success, and prevents three-way in the Cold War A dangerous race of fruitless war.

Inevitably, it is the path of a sensitive Dino to cut the nukes and go to the Table table 2025 project, The Right Permission to Trump Presidency. His calls: “Expand and modernize the nuclear force of the US, to determine size, sophistication and tailor-made, Russia and China at the same time.”

In other words, start a new weapon race.

Between them Many other tremendous ideas2025 Projects has been asked to develop marine army Unwritten, inadvertentlyArmed nuclear, Boat cruise missile China to scare; Reboot nuclear tests and fall Spread the cantries between tens of thousands Americans During the cold war (though Test nuclear Ban treatyand Spread weapons based on spaceWe have been warned of the Russians for years. “These recommendations should be carried out in the safety of Americans who will increase the risk of significant decline and global regions and conflict,” has the national security analyst written Joseph CirincioneIn July, for that Atomic scientist newsletter.

Richard Nixon only Could go to China. After installing Professional Fox TV host In the defense section, Sure Trump can take a nuclear complex of the nuclear military industry. Designated by its cost cutter, Musk, has already asked US Air Force (and Congress) sacred cow, F-35 fighter expensive. According to Nukes’s modernization, Musk could make $ 2 trillion dollars from the federal budget. That would be much more real, and faster than Imaginary billion Trump’s budget director paused in January, “wake up gender ideology, and green, among other goals, in federal books.

Provided, Musker ordered for the first time to make $ 2 trillion cuts One-year reduction The budget, no one behave in decades like nuclear modernization. But it wouldn’t be the first time A promise of his They shrunk. Mentioned the risk “Some doomsday events“As a reason Give man to Mars. DOGE gives it, and the chance to help the Trump Administration, a nuclear disaster on Earth, is a doomsday event that is located in a normal view of all. This can give you Extensive Mars Promises to last a little time.

This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views indicated by the author or authors are not necessarily American scientific.