Arsenals of Folly by Richard Rhodes5/8/2023 But our government keeps looking for reasons to keep them, and maintaining the current much reduced arsenal still costs $50 billion a year. Most Americans, he's found, think that we don't have nuclear weapons any more, and that may reflect a realistic perception that we no longer need them. In this century only North Korea has tested bombs, and those could be the last explosions. He also noted how the number of tests dropped from decades of intensity to near zero after 1993. Rhodes commented that seeing the bomb tests on a world map over time shows how much they were a strange form of communication between nations. The total is shocking to most people-2,053. The evening began with a short version of Isao Ishimoto's animation of all the world's atomic explosions in the period 1945 to 1998.
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