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> If America proceeds with a very costly modernization of U.S. nuclear forces (many hundreds of billions of dollars) [emphasis added]

You say billion like it's big. It isn't. The US is a 25 trillion dollar economy, and growing. A trillion dollars over four or five years isn't much.

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This is the part where I post that Eisenhower quote about how every bomb and plane is a hundred schools and hospitals that go unbuilt. In a time of huge inequality and degrading infrastructure, I take offense to the idea that hundreds of billions of dollar is a small amount when it could significantly improve the lives of an uncountable number of people.

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