The estimated cost, when adjusted for inflation, for the planned "modernization" of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex has risen to $1.7 trillion.  That money could provide an awful lot of healthcare, education, housing, parks, public transportation, roads, clean water, child nutrition, disability benefits, Social Security, and other public services to improve the lives of Americans.  But, of course, it won't.  Instead, it will be used to facilitate the race toward the human catastrophe of nuclear war.