The Military Sector

It has been 35 years, more than a generation, since the first nuclear explosion was released over the New Mexico desert. The most we can say is that mankind has continued to survive the increasingly ominous chain of moves and counter-moves that have flowed from that war-born measure. But at what cost?The whole world is increasingly afflicted by the threat of nuclear war. An insane and ever-intensifying arms race has bred violence in every lesser form, carried hunger and disease in its train as needed resources were devoted elsewhere, and has deepened the insecurity even of those who were arming themselves to the teeth. Are we condemned to a race in which the only conceivable end is assured mutual destruction today or tomorrow?As Americans enter the decade of the 1980s, they may expect to spend over one trillion dollars in the first five years on their defense. In the name of national security, the U.S. Congress has permitted the military a stranglehold on an immense sector of government expenditure.In thi...