Sleepwalking in a nuclear minefield: the United States still worships at the altar of nuclear weapons--yet cries 'heresy' when others want to join the sect.(United States is still advocating nuclear weapon)

From: Sojourners Magazine | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

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AS THE 21ST CENTURY UNFOLDS, a new truth is gradually being recognized: Nuclear weapons and human security cannot co-exist.

Almost two decades after the end of the Cold War, there are still 25,000 nuclear weapons in existence, about 95 percent held by the United States and Russia with smaller numbers also possessed by the United Kingdom. France, China, India, Pakistan, and Israel. All told, half of humanity still lives in a nuclear-weapons state. The total amount of money spent by these countries on their nuclear arsenals exceeds $12 trillion, a ...

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