STUDY SAYS ARMS HAVE BURGEONED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100130082-6
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: October 12, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Study say,
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` Equal 3.5 tons of .TNT
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Associated Press
Il WASHINGTON = International nuclear
stockpiles have mushroomed and represent the '^
equivalent of 3.5 tons of TNT for every person,'
pn earth, more than a million times the explo '?
sive powerof the bomb that was dropped on PPP
roshima. according to a study by a coalition Of LT'
arnfs control groups.
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The study. "World Military and Social Ex-tin,_
penditures, 1982," charges that nuclear and
conventional arms races have wasted resources
without enhancing international security.
"Under its heavy military burden, the global'
economy has suffered." writes the author of theme
study; Ruth Leger Sivard. "The diversion of re--i-e
sources from civilian needs is a silent killer,'
curbing productivity and development, and add- q
ing/more millions tgthe hundreds of millions of".'I
people who lack the most basic necessities of
life."
Sivard is director of World Priorities. a non
profit research organization. She was formerly
chief of the economics division of the US Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency.
The report, using information supplied by
the Pentagon, the CIA. United Nations organizai"
tions and several International publicationsy
claims that:
? World military costs have risen to $600 bil-'
lion a year - well over $1 million a minute.
? The world's stockpile of nuclear weaponsnq
is the equivalent of 16 billion tons of TNT. Dur-
ing World War II. three million tons of muni-,4..,
dons were expended and 40 million to 50 mil- '"
lion-people, died. .. ;
? Spending per soldier averages $19.300 f b
1wgrldwide but only $380 is spent per school-age.. ..
child for education.
-. ? For every 100,000 people, there are 556 sol-
diers and 85 physicians. An estimated 100 mil-
lion people worldwide are engaged directly or in :,9r
diectly in military activities. ..
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In 32 'countries, governments spend more'
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foi;anilitary purposes than for education and
.NA`rOand Warsaw,Pact forces. have a to-_"t:1
kf 100.000 tanks,, enough to form 'a . bolumn 9'
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