> We have announced plans to spend a trillion dollars on more nuclear weapons The U.S. spends a trillion dollars on nuclear weapons per 20 years. [1] I agree

> We have announced plans to spend a trillion dollars on more nuclear weapons The U.S. spends a trillion dollars on nuclear weapons per 20 years. [1] I agree that disarmament is a credible and the optimum mechanism for reducing risk of the use of nuclear weapons in war and in testing. I think that using hyperbole discredits earnest efforts to this aim. The broadside against secret profiteers ("the usual suspects"?) compounds this. [1] http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/catastrophic-harm/a-diversion-of-public-resources/ http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/catastrophic-harm/a-diversion...