Essay Archive - Nuclear Warfare
Nuclear Warfare
As stated before, nuclear warfare is very costly and uses most of America’s capital on something not totally needed. Currently the United States spends $25 to $35 billion on annually on maintaining, testing and developing its nuclear arsenal. That gives us a total of 12,000 to19,000 nuclear weapons in the United States alone. Also, a recent study by the Brooking’s Institution found that the United States alone had spent more than $5.5 trillion on nuclear weapons programs since the beginning of the Nuclear Age. That money could have been used for something more useful, such as food for the n....
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