Interesting. Where would we be as a world if we cared for people above weapons...
1. Since 1940, the US alone has spent $5.48 trillion developing nuclear weapons. The “strategic sufficiency” — words of Kissinger — continues in an arms race. We can now destroy ten planet earths.
2. The US spends $100 million per day “to keep its weapons poised and ready for use in a preemptive strike” (166).
3. 20% of our fiscal budget is for military.
4. Half of our US national debt is military-related ($2.9 of $5.6 trillion).
5. In 2003 the US military budget exceeded the next fifteen nations combined.
6. US spends 2 billion dollars per day on military.
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