The world’s nuclear-armed nations spent a record
$73bn on their weapons last year, with the US spending almost as much as
the eight other states combined, according to a new report.
The
new spending figures, reflecting the highest expenditure on nuclear
arms since the height of the cold war, have been estimated by the
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), which argues
that the coronavirus pandemic underlines the wastefulness of the nuclear
arms race.
Read more at : World nuclear arms spending hit $73bn last year – half of it by US | Nuclear weapons | The Guardian
