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Monday, December 5th, 2022

Pentagon to Spend $200 Billion on New Nuclear Bomber as Millions Live in Poverty

Author:     Brett Wilkins
Source:     truthout / Common Dreams
Publication Date:     December 3, 2022
 Link: Pentagon to Spend $200 Billion on New Nuclear Bomber as Millions Live in Poverty
Stephan:   The United States spends more on its military-industrial complex than the next seven nations of the world combined. Few people in the United States seem to comprehend that. I understand why the military wants to stay ahead of the international curve of weapons development, but I also understand what a super-profit scam those developments constitute. I also understand that poverty is a huge problem in both cities and rural areas, and feel that these new weapons systems could be developed for far less money than they currently cost and that some of those multi-billions should be going to create greater wellbeing in the United States.
The B-21 Raider is unveiled at Northrop Grumman’s Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California on December 2, 2022.
Credit: Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty

Peace and economic justice advocates responded to the imminent unveiling Friday of the United States Air Force’s new $750 million-per-plane nuclear bomber by reiterating accusations of misplaced priorities in a nation where tens of millions of people live in poverty and lack adequate healthcare coverage.

Military-industrial complex giant Northrop Grumman is set to introduce its B-21 Raider on Friday. The B-21, whose development was 30 years in the making and whose total project cost is expected to exceed $200 billion, is tapped to replace the aging B-2 Spirit.

“One thing the world definitely does not need is another stealth bomber,” Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace group CodePink, told Common Dreams.

“This ominous death machine, with its price tag of $750 million a pop, brings huge profits to Northrop Grumman but takes our society one more step down the road of spiritual death,” Benjamin added, referring to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 anti-war speech, […]

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