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An American Century of Carnage: Measuring Violence in a Single Superpower World
John W. Dower - TomDispatch,
3 Apr 2017
The projected bill for just the 30-year nuclear modernization agenda comes to over $90 million a day, or almost $4 million an hour. The $1 trillion price tag for maintaining the nation’s status as “the most powerful nation on Earth” for a single year amounts to roughly $2.74 billion a day, over $114 million an hour. Creating a capacity for violence greater than the world has ever seen is costly — and remunerative. So an era of a “new peace”? Think again.
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