Show P fc Pe Perverted Priorities s In her tenth-anniversary tenth edition of World Military and Social Expenditures Ruth Leger Sivard head of the Washington DC-based DC World Priorities Inc loc and former chief hi f of the the economics economics division of the tile US U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency points out that Since World War II between 3 trillion and 4 trillion has been spent building nuclear arsenals The megatons of of f. f explosive energy stored in these nuclear stockpiles are powerful enough to kill every person on onEarth onEarth onEarth Earth 12 times over In a world with annual military expenditures of billion one adult in in three cannot read and write and one person in four is hungry S In one year the Soviet Union spends more on 00 military defense than the g governments of all the developing countries spend on education and health care for their 36 billion people It costs the US U.S. a aday aday aday day to operate one aircraft carrier while children die of hunger and related causes in Africa every day There is now one soldier for every 43 people in the world but only one physician for every 1030 people |