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"The expenditure is for a thirty-year program to modernize the US nuclear arsenal and production facilities. Although President Obama began his administration with a dramatic public commitment to build a nuclear weapons-free world, that commitment has long ago dwindled and died. It has been replaced by an administration plan to build a new generation of US nuclear weapons and nuclear production facilities to last the nation well into the second half of the twenty-first century. This plan, which has received almost no attention by the mass media, includes redesigned nuclear warheads, as well as new nuclear bombers, submarines, land-based missiles, weapons labs, and production plants. The estimated cost? $1,000,000,000,000.00or, for those readers unfamiliar with such lofty figures, $1 trillion."
- Lawrence Wittner, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2016/03/16/trillion-dollar-question/
stone space
(6,498 posts)In that context, a trillion dollars for nukes seems like an impossible dream.
freebrew
(1,917 posts)to India or somewhere else that we've sent through college.
Like any country needs nuclear weapons. A ridiculous waste of capital and humans.
How long will it be that that there isn't ANY money left to squeeze from the poor.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)If we can afford the F-35, and the Littoral Combat Ships, new subs and carriers, and $500 million to train 4 Syrian fighters, we can afford one little-bitty old $Trillion for new and improved nukes.
What we can't afford, obviously, is taking care of our own people.