Costs and technology spin-offs of nuclear weapons

According to an audit by the Brookings Institution, between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. spent $8.75 trillion in present-day terms^[63] on nuclear weapons programs. 57 percent of which was spent on building nuclear weapons deliverysystems. 6.3 percent of the total, $549 billion in present-day terms, was spent on environmental remediationand nuclear waste management, for example cleaning up the Hanford site, and 7 percent of the total, $615 billion was spent on making nuclear weapons themselves.culled from wikipedia