Hadn’t heard anything about nukes for a while, not since Putin, threatened to unleash them in his war against Ukraine, so I took a look around. What I found, is more than a little disquieting. Turns out there’s one helluva big nuclear buildup taking place, with the U.S. and Russia, leading the pack.

According to a report dated June 17, from the AP, “…the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, said the nine nuclear-armed states spent a combined total of $91.4 billion on their arsenals in 2023 – equivalent to $2,898 per second.”

Seems like a lot, doesn’t it? Moreover, presuming advances have been made in nuclear science making contemporary nukes exponentially more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, shouldn’t this development be at or near the center of the runup to the November election? Standby, it gets even better. Or worse, maybe.

Again, from the Associated Press, “The group said that figures show a $10.7 billion increase in global spending on nuclear weapons in 2023 compared to 2022, with the United States accounting for 80% of that increase. The U.S. share of total spending, $51.5 billion, is more than all the other nuclear-armed countries put together.”

What are Russia and the United States getting ready for? An unsurvivable conflict, leaving both countries in ashes? Will we never get past the theory of mutual annihilation preventing us from annihilating one another? Shouldn’t somebody be talking about this?

At the very least, supporters of Donald Trump, should know how precarious the world situation truly is, before they decide to vote for a man who actually thought nuking a hurricane or injecting bleach into the human body to fight Covid, might be viable ideas. Nothing should be taken for granted. Not when dealing with human behavior.