Russia to spend over 100 billion RUB on nuclear weapons - official

[mosu]

Russia’s expenditures on nuclear weapons in 2013-2015 will amount to 101,15 billion rubles, Head of the Defence Committee of the Lower House of the Russian parliament Vladimir Komoedov has said today.
According to Komoedov, Russia has already spent 27,4 billion rubles on nuclear munition in 2012.

He has also noted that all nuclear expenditures are performed by Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation.

RIA

 

[Tshering22]

Why so much on nukes again? Russia already has the largest nuke stockpile on this planet. They have enough nukes to annihilate a planet the size of Uranus.

What's with this now?

 

[applesauce]

Why so much on nukes again? Russia already has the largest nuke stockpile on this planet. They have enough nukes to annihilate a planet the size of Uranus.

What's with this now?

nuclear weapons are very expensive to maintain and even more expensive to modernize which is what russia's doing, they are not expanding the nuclear force