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Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940

• Table of contents
• Errata
• Photo gallery
• Department of Defense Future Years Program Historical Database

"The Hidden Costs of Our Nuclear Arsenal,"
Press Briefing, June 30, 1998:

• Press release
• Overview of Project Findings—Stephen I. Schwartz
• The Economic Implications of Nuclear Weapons—William J. Weida
• A Historian's Assessment of Atomic Audit—David Alan Rosenberg

News, Commentary, and Reviews of Atomic Audit:

• "America's Nuclear Arsenal: $5.5 Trillion Well-Spent," The Hill, July 8, 1998
• "Flimsy Accounting on Nuclear Weapons," New York Times, July 9, 1998
• "The Tax-Cutting Edge: Nuclear Weapons Are No Bargain," Boston Phoenix, July 16-23, 1998
• "Nuclear Costs," commentary by Daniel Schorr, National Public Radio, August 9, 1998
• "Check, Please!," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 1998
• "Destroyer of Worlds," The Hindu (India), December 20, 1998
• "Nuclear Proliferation," report by Mike Shuster, National Public Radio, January 5 1999
• "Radioactive Reading," Imprint, University of Waterloo (Canada), January 15, 1999
• "Nuclear Reckoning," Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 1998-99
• "Atomic Accountant," UC Santa Cruz Review, Winter 1999

Charts:

• Estimated Minimum Incurred Costs of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Programs, 1940-1996
• U.S. Government Historical Obligations by Function, 1940-1996
• Expenditures for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Materials Production, 1948-1996
• Expenditures for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Research, Development, Testing and Production, 1948-1998
• Global Nuclear Weapons Tests, 1945-1998
• Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 1945-1996
• U.S. and USSR/Russian Strategic Offensive Nuclear Forces, 1945-1997
• Average Unit Acquisition Costs for Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicles
• How Much Was Enough? Official Estimates of Nuclear Weapons Requirements, 1957-1995
• Biographies for the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project Steering Committee
• The Costs of the Manhattan Project
• 50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons
• What U.S. Nuclear Weapons Delivery Systems Really Cost
• Top 10 Least Accountable U.S. Nuclear Weapons Programs
• Estimated 1998 Spending on U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Weapons-Related Programs
• The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Complex
• Bombs in the Backyard: Bases and Facilities with Significant U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions
• Published articles and letters to the editor

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