$73 billion. That's how much the nine nuclear-armed states spent on nuclear weapons in 2019. We have just released new research breaking down how much each country spent → https://t.co/wJfdM62eCd Here is what you need to know ↓ #thread pic.twitter.com/3HaiMCueyP— ICAN (@nuclearban) May 13, 2020
The Guardian: World nuclear arms spending hit $73bn last year – half of it by US
* Spending by nine nuclear-armed states rose 10%
* Trump boosted nuclear funding but cut pandemic prevention
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.
The new spending figures, reflecting the highest expenditure on nuclear arms since the height of the cold war, have been estimated by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), which argues that the coronavirus pandemic underlines the wastefulness of the nuclear arms race.
The nine nuclear weapons states spent a total of $72.9bn in 2019, a 10% increase on the year before. Of that, $35.4bn was spent by the Trump administration, which accelerated the modernisation of the US arsenal in its first three years while cutting expenditure on pandemic prevention.
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WNU Editor: The report is here .... Enough Is Enough: Global Nuclear Weapons Spending (ICAN)
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ICAN is a worthless group made up of a bunch of posers, cheats and liars.
1) If you are 3rd world and cannot build a nuke, you support ICAN.
2) Countries support ICAN that have nukes of nuke programs.
- Iran has a nuke program and we are always told that breakout is any second.
- Saudi Arabia has at least 1 nuke. The bought nuke capable ballistic missiles from China ... because why?
3) Somehow the poverty is greater in South America and Africa and they do not have nuke programs. Might poverty be because of general corruption?
4) If we dig into who started this might we find a bunch, if EuroTrash especially Northern European EuroTrash? The brilliant thing about Greta Thunberg is she skipped the college & PhD paperwork drill and went straight to activism. She is as credible as those at ICAN.
Countries like New Zealand, Canada and the Nordic countries basically are in the rain shadow of other countries that effectively protect them, so they can strut around and proclaim how pure they are. And if it is not the rain shadow, (the umbrella), it s the fact that they are literally at the ends of the earth.
Except for the fact that the Baltic Sea freezes up in the winter, The Nordic countries would have skipped WW2. No one would have been interested. That is they are at the ends of the earth. The far corner.
Fucking Joke
Remember the time the Swedes liberated Buchenwald?
I don't either.
But they sold war material to the NAZIs!
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