I wonder how many ICBM can that get you... probably like 3 or something...
- Found my answer: https://www.brookings.edu/what-nuclear-weapons-delivery-syst...
Not a lot...
- Found my answer: https://www.brookings.edu/what-nuclear-weapons-delivery-syst...
Not a lot...
Take the US Trident 2 [1]. Wikipedia lists a cost of $31 MM, in 2019 dollars, which would be about $37 MM today. With $1.3 BN you could buy 35 of those.
But the North Koreans are not buying their missiles from Lokheed-Martin. They are building them in house, so you'd expect them to pay much less for labor and materials.
Also, US strategic rocket weapons (ICBMs) are actually not the best in their class, as a result of post-soviet partial denuclearization. Many aren't even MIRV. This doesn't apply to submarines and bombers, those are top notch. Especially bombers, many decades ahead.