Why is Bush spending so much money on nuclear weapons?

Does he intend to use a couple anytime soon? Some people might think I'm nuts for even suggesting this, but look at how much money he's spending on nukes. The article gets into the new nuclear weapons that Bush is funding. If we're building new nukes, then I think it's reasonable to ask if he intends to use them anytime soon.

More from the article:

The budget is busted; American soldiers need more armor; they're running out of supplies. Yet the Department of Energy is spending an astonishing $6.5 billion on nuclear weapons this year, and President Bush is requesting $6.8 billion more for next year and a total of $30 billion over the following four years. This does not include his much-cherished missile-defense program, by the way. This is simply for the maintenance, modernization, development, and production of nuclear bombs and warheads.

Measured in "real dollars" (that is, adjusting for inflation), this year's spending on nuclear activities is equal to what Ronald Reagan spent at the height of the U.S.-Soviet standoff. It exceeds by over 50 percent the average annual sum ($4.2 billion) that the United States spent?again, in real dollars?throughout the four and a half decades of the Cold War.

And we wonder why Iran and North Korea want the bomb. They're probably scared shitless.