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Scary nuclear thoughts at Halloween time

Scary thoughts http://www.news-journal.com/news/2015/oct/25/letters-on-nuclear-armaments-upshur-courthouse-fla/, Jerry King,

It is close to Halloween so how about some scary thinking? The U.S. is currently spending about a trillion a year on defense, which is more than the next 13 countries combined, including Russia and China.

The U.S. currently has more than 3,200 nuclear-thermonuclear weapons on submarines, missiles and bombers ready to use. Each of these nuclear weapons is over 1,000 times more powerful than the ones dropped on Japan. Less than 10 of these on the U.S. or any other country could pretty much destroy the country and the population.

If more than 40 or 50 weapons of this type were used the Earth would be devoid of all life forms, like Mercury or Venus.

Yet I can recall no presidential candidate even talking about nuclear disarmament. And our government has proposed spending up to a trillion dollars over the next decade upgrading the nuclear arsenal.

Carly Fiorina said she wanted to spend over half a trillion on upgrading our military.

This kind of muscle-flexing and threatening posture is what got us into the unnecessary war in Iraq. We need global disarmament with the U.S. being a leader.

October 26, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general