America has spent $5.5 Trillion on Nuclear Weapons since 1940

from tcpalm.com........

"The Brookings Institute's estimate is that we spent $5.5 trillion on nuclear weapons from 1940 to 1996 — exceeding total federal spending on education, employment, social services, agriculture, the environment, general science and space research, not to mention natural disasters, law enforcement and energy production.

Many will say it was money well-dealt, that we spent the Soviets into submission. What one cannot defend, regardless, is the proposition how we as a society have refused to pay what it cost".......read more here