the US squanders $80,000 every minute on nuclear weapons
The United States spends over $80,000 every single minute on nuclear weapons, more than every single country in the world combined, according to a new report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
The massive annual spending on these weapons of mass destruction is more than the federal government spends on primary and secondary education programs.
Despite rising inflation and a raging pandemic, the United States is massively expanding its nuclear arsenal, with spending on nuclear weapons surging 14 percent between 2020 and 2021.
While the US spent $44.2 billion on nuclear weapons in 2021, China spent $11.7 billion, and Russia spent $8.6 billion.
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As reported in Common Dreams, August 6th:
World Faces 'Loaded Gun' on Hiroshima's 77th Anniversary
“We must ask: What have we learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city?...
The United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, obliterating the city and killing 140,000 people. Three days later, the US dropped a second atomic bomb on the people of Nagasaki, killing 74,000 more.
The US remains the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons in war...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also spoke at the (Hiroshima) memorial: “I must raise my voice to appeal to the people around the world that the tragedy of nuclear weapons use should never be repeated. Japan will walk its path toward a world without nuclear weapons, no matter how narrow, steep or difficult that may be.”
A silent prayer was held at 8.15 am, the moment the bomb was dropped."
