Posted on May 13, 2020

World nuclear arms spending hit $73bn last year – half of it by US

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The world’s nuclear-armed nations spent a record $73bn on their weapons last year, with the US spending almost as much as the eight other states combined, according to a new report.

World nuclear arms spending hit $73bn last year – half of it by US

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SGT Steve McFarland

Posted >1 y ago

I was in the weapons community for eleven years, but I'm glad I left that behind. I don't regret that time, but I wouldn't want to be there now. We have been "upgrading" nuclear weapons for forty years, isn't it time to start retiring some of them? Nuclear weapons aren't the solution, precision-guided weapons are far more effective in the kind of warfare we are engaging in today.

Comparing weapons spending to spending for pandemic preparedness is an apples/oranges comparison.

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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SGT Steve McFarland I've been going by the Old Bendix, Bannister Federal Complex twice a day for about a Month Now. Leveled to the Ground. All the Hazmat Left behind in the Wake. What a Mess.

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SGT Steve McFarland

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I know. A dear friend of mine grew up in a neighborhood in Albuquerque that was built on top of a nuclear waste dump. Cancer killed her in her forties...

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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SGT Steve McFarland - Oh Yeah, I Understand. Here's a Little Tidbit from Where I was Born. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/28/us/st-louis-landfill-epa/index.html

Residents say the radioactive waste at a St. Louis-area landfill made them sick. The EPA ordered...

Residents in a community north of St. Louis got some news this week they've longed wanted to hear. Radioactive material -- from the Manhattan Project -- will be removed from an area landfill.

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SGT Steve McFarland

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Hopefully you are still healthy, because Pat and her classmates weren't so lucky. By the time cancer killed Pat, three-quarters of them were already dead. That is the enduring legacy of our nuclear energy and weapons industry.

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