Want to Save $1.7 Trillion?
Just Say "No" to New Nukes
Since the 1940s, we humans have spent enormous sums of money on genocidal weapons. Untold trillions, actually, on arsenals that, if used, would destroy civilization while killing most other life forms on our planet (mainly due to radiation and nuclear winter).
Here’s a global overview of nuclear bombs and warheads as of 2023:
Amazingly, the USA, “leader of the free world,” plans to spend $1.7 trillion over the next thirty years or so on a new generation of genocidal nukes. The big-ticket items are the Sentinel ICBM, the B-21 Raider bomber, and Columbia-class submarines, which compose the three legs of America’s nuclear triad.
One of my favorite quips is “the triad is not the Trinity,” but it’s certainly treated as a glorious and holy thing by Congress and the U.S. military. Military contractors like Northrop Grumman are more than happy to build world-ending nukes. Naturally, it’s not couched in this way; our nukes are all about “deterrence,” though weapons built to deter others can easily become weapons to obliterate others.
We Americans already have more than enough nukes to “deter” others, but there can never be enough weapons when the military-industrial-congressional complex gears up its influence campaigns. Forgive me, but it recalls a song from my teen years: “More, more, more: How do you like it, how do you like it.” Of course, that was an answer to “How do you like your love.” But for the “warriors” in charge, if asked, “How do you like your war?” their collective answer is truly, “More, more, more.”
Stop the madness, America. Let’s put away the new nukes and save ourselves $1.7 trillion. Let’s reserve “More, more, more” for making love, not war.