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Sign the Petition for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons today! Fact Source: “Worldwide deployment of nuclear weapons,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 2014
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Sign the Petition for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons today! Fact Source: “50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons,” Brookings Institute, 1998
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Sign the Petition for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons today! Fact Source: “Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2014,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 2014.
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Sign the Petition for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons today! “The U.S. stores nuclear weapons at 12 sites in 11 U.S. states and 6 military bases in 5 European countries: Belgium, Germany,...
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“In President Obama’s 2016 budget, military expenses are a staggering $625 billion—54% of all U.S. discretionary spending.” Fact source: “President’s Proposed $1.15 Trillion Discretionary Spending...
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“From 1952–1992 the U.S. detonated 928 nuclear test explosions at the Nevada Test Site on land seized from the Western Shoshone Nation in violation of the Treaty of Ruby Valley.” Fact source: “United...
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The U.S. has more jails than colleges. Its national incarceration rate of 707 adults per 100,000 residents is the highest in the world by a huge margin. Fact source: “The meteoric, costly and...
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“China’s aggressive territorial claims, the US ‘pivot’ to Asia, and Japan’s opportunistic moves add up to a volatile brew, not unlike that which triggered World War I in Europe.” – Walden Bello Fact...
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Nuclear-armed U.S. Trident submarines conducted 28 nuclear ‘deterrence patrols’ in 2012, each lasting an average of 70 days at sea. Fact source: “Declining Deterrent Patrols Indicate Too Many SSBNs,”...
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The US military is by some accounts the largest single consumer of petroleum in the world. Fact source: Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything, Capitalism vs. the Climate, according to federal Greenhouse...
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