One would think the enormous budget struggles that are besetting virtually every major military on the planet would have extraneous spending getting curbed. Not so, says a new report, which predicts hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending on the modernization and upgrading of nuclear weapons systems across the various nuclear weapons possessing nations.
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well if we can't fix the economy we might as well get rid of a few billion of those pesky people wanting jobs.
While opposed to foreign aid on the whole, why the US provides additional aid to countries who can afford to create and maintain nuclear arsenals is beyond my understanding. The countries coming to mind first are India, Pakistan and Israel. Let them provide for their own countrymen.
The fact remains though, that no country with nuclear weapons has been attacked. Would the USA have bombed Serbia for 78 days if it had posessed the bomb? Would Iraq have been invaded if it had REALLY had nuclear weapons? These weapons make aggressors THINK TWICE and then THINK YET AGAIN, before misbehaving.