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Two new reports detail how the world's nine nuclear-armed countries are spending aggressively to modernize and deploy weapons that pose an existential threat to civilization.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Seriously. Pick a better unit of measurement. I’m not going to multiply it out by 86,400 x 365 to figure out the actual amount.

[–] mlg 8 points 6 months ago

I can assure you Pakistan is using that money for new mercedes for all army generals, and some 99 cent red paint to pretend they upgraded their nukes.

[–] Macallan 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

31,536,000 Seconds in a year x $2,898 = $91,391,328,000.

$91 Billion a year globally on Nukes honestly doesn't sound like it's that much. I would have expected more.

[–] Zron 1 points 6 months ago

There’s already enough nukes on hair triggers to destroy modern civilization several times over.

We don’t need more nukes, so it’s extremely concerning that countries are spending so much money on building more.

It’s important to remember that every single day, the world is about 30 minutes away from nuclear annihilation. And that in about an hour, every major city on the planet could be an irradiated wasteland.

[–] Agent641 5 points 6 months ago

Jokes on them, I crave the abyss

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

We are the first civilization that knows exactly how it is going to end itself, we just don't know exactly when.

[–] mkwt 4 points 6 months ago

I wonder how much of this is just the Minuteman replacement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Any beings stupid enough to eschew spending money on helping their own species in favour of weapons to destroy the planet they live on don't deserve to survive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Great use of money. Not like we could spend that on improving the climate.

[–] KAYDUBELL 1 points 6 months ago

Well that sounds ominous