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What was announced in 2023 as a $96 billion upgrade incurred a “critical breach” in 2024 when its budget hit an estimated $132 billion.

The new nuclear arms race is about more than just wildly misguided strategic thinking or a stubborn ideology that holds fast to the absurd notion that more, “better” nuclear weapons can somehow make us safer. There is money to be made. between January 2021 and August 2023 investors held $477 billion in shares and bonds…

The world is on fire, from Israel’s brutal, inhumane attacks on Gaza to Russias invasion of Ukraine. The last thing we need is a new nuclear arms race.

 

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned the West that arming Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets could result in a nuclear war. Russian allies have been threatening to use nuclear weapons for some time now as the war carries on and appears more and more to be unwinnable for the West.

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The Doomsday Clock is now 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been in history. New Yorkers are concerned about the implications for their lives and the future of the world.