The spending by the nuclear powers to modernize their atomic arsenals increased by nearly 9% to $82.4 billion in 2021, according to a report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN, the English abbreviation Na).
According to the report, the US alone spent $44.2 billion on its nuclear program last year, 12.7% more than the previous year, and China spent $11.7 billion (+10.4%).
Russia ($8.6 billion), France ($5.9 billion) and the United Kingdom ($6.8 billion) budgets for nuclear weapons have increased slightly, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for his hard work for the Weapons Ban. adds the winner ICAN for Nuclear Weapons Treaty, ratified by 59 countries but not ratified by any of the nuclear powers.
According to the report, Pakistan spent US$1.1 billion on nuclear weapons from US$1 billion a year ago, while India reduced its nuclear spending to US$2.3 billion (from US$2.5 in 2020).
Israel, which has never officially admitted that it has a nuclear bomb, allocated $ 1.2 billion to its nuclear program, as it did last year. In 2021, North Korea allocated US$642 million to the atomic sector compared to US$700 million in 2020.
Private companies
The taxpayers’ money allowed new contracts to be awarded to private companies ($30.2 billion in total) to modernize the great powers’ nuclear arsenals, and these private companies, in turn, bought the services of think tanks and groups. The usefulness of nuclear weapons adds the NGO, which condemns a pro-nuclear vicious circle.
“This report shows that nuclear weapons are useless,” said Alicia Sanders-Zakre, ICAN’s research coordinator. “Nuclear armed countries spent another $6.5 billion in 2021 and failed to prevent a nuclear power from starting a war in Europe,” he said, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
That’s why we need multilateral nuclear disarmament more than ever before.”
source: Noticias
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