Opinion | The US Spent 7.5 Times More on Nuclear Weapons Than Global Vaccine Donations

'Since the pandemic started, the United States has prioritized funding for nuclear arms and the military over global vaccines.'

According to Koshgarian, the $maintenance and security” of the stockpiles and ​modernization, which is a complicated array of upgrades to weapons.” Unlike vaccines, which are injected into arms and then gone, nuclear weapons require constant funding commitments. ​Maintaining that costs money and we’ve been doing it for decades.”What’s keeping us safe: Is it maintaining this huge nuclear stockpile or delivering these vaccines?” poses Koshgarian.

Yet all indicators suggest nuclear spending will remain high. The Biden administration is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to

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