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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38410027
"The United States will spend at least $179 billion over the nine fiscal years of 2010-2018 on its nuclear arsenal, averaging $20 billion per year, with costs increasing from $16 billion to $25 billion per year over that timeframe"
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/us-nuclear-weapons-budget-overview/
I don't know about expanding our nuclear arsenal, but I have seen too many stories about leaking nukes from the 50's, to be against spending some money here.
BTW, as you point out, Obama already spent this money on upgrading our nukes. In fact I remember reading a story about how the Obama admin was looking at bunker busting nukes, which every nuclear watchdog group in the world was saying that small nukes open up Pandora's box.