Two years ago this month, RootsAction organized 60 organizations to urge Congress to abolish land-based nuclear missiles, ICBMs (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles). These groups wanted ICBMs shut down because these missiles are on "hair-trigger alert" and greatly increase "the chances that a false alarm or miscalculation will result in nuclear war."

Now, the military is helping out, by making ICBMs cost so much more money than they were supposed to that the whole project has to be reconsidered. Let's seize this opportunity to shut it down entirely and eliminate the most dangerous weapons on Earth.

$117 billion down the toilet. The budget for the new ICBM program has experienced such atrocious cost overruns, that the program could be terminated altogether. Thanks to the little known and rarely implemented Nunn-McCurdy Act, DoD is required to report and justify to Congress if a Major Acquisition Program like the Air Force’s ICBM program exceeds cost estimates by certain thresholds.

The ICBM program had an original cost estimate of $96 billion for 659 ICBMs. The cost has soared to a possible $117 billion, triggering Nunn-McCurdy.

Think of what $117 billion could be used for instead of being flushed into unaccountable military spending. Click here to tell your Representative and Senators what you think.

We recommend reading the two short documents in the background links below, and then clicking here to ask your Congress Members to do the same.

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Background:
>> RootsAction: "Organizations Call for Elimination of 'Launch on Warning' Land-Based Nuclear Missiles in the United States"
>>  Bloomberg: "New US Ballistic Missile May Cost So Much That Project Risks Being Terminated"

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