Wolemba Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director wa Western States Legal Foundation, Januware 29, 2024
Malingaliro ali World BEYOND War Chochitika chovumbulutsa zikwangwani ku Oakland, California pa Januware 28, 2024.
Zaka zoposa 100 zapitazo, katswiri wina wa zachikhalidwe cha anthu wa ku Austria, dzina lake Rudolph Goldscheid, analemba kuti: “Bajeti ndi imene boma lasiya kutsatira mfundo zonyenga.”[1]
Kuwononga ndalama ku US mu FY 2024 kuyandikira $ 1 Trillion. Kuwononga ndalama pa zida za nyukiliya, pamene kuli kwakuti peresenti yaing’ono chabe ya chiwonkhetso chimenechi, ili pamlingo wapamwamba koposa wolembedwa.[2]
US ikukonzekera kugwiritsa ntchito ndalama zosachepera $ 1.5 Trillion pazaka za 30 kuti imangenso mwendo uliwonse wa zida za nyukiliya ndi zomangamanga zomwe zikutsatiridwa, kuphatikizapo gulu latsopano la sitima zapamadzi zotchedwa ballistic missile submarines, gulu latsopano la mizinga yochokera ku silo-based intercontinental ballistic ballistic, ulendo watsopano wa nyukiliya. mzinga, bomba lamphamvu yokoka, bomba latsopano lowombera lalitali - ndi zida zotsagana, zokhala ndi maenje osinthidwa kapena atsopano, panjira iliyonse yoperekera.[3]
Bajeti ya FY 2024 Department of Energy ikuphatikiza $32.4 Biliyoni kuti asungire ndikukweza zida zanyukiliya. Bajeti ya FY 2024 Department of Defense ikuphatikiza ndi Zina $ 37 Biliyoni kuti asinthe ndikusintha zida zoperekera zida za nyukiliya, kuphatikiza bomba latsopano la B21 Raider lalitali, lowombera mobisa (kontrakitala: Northrup Grumman), gulu lankhondo latsopano la Colombia lomwe linayambitsa zida zankhondo zam'madzi (kontrakitala: General Dynamics), ndi dongosolo latsopano la "Sentinel", kuti alowe m'malo mwa Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (komanso Northrup Grumman).[4]
$69 Biliyoni ndi ndalama zochulukirapo kuwirikiza kawiri zomwe zikufunika kuthetsa njala yapadziko lonse.[5] Koma sizongokhudza ndalama zokha komanso momwe zingagwiritsire ntchito bwino.
Mu 2021, Admiral Charles Richard, yemwe anali Mtsogoleri wa US Strategic Command, analemba kuti: "Tiyenera kuvomereza maziko a mphamvu zanyukiliya za dziko lathu, chifukwa zimapanga 'malo oyendetsa' kuti tigwiritse ntchito mphamvu zankhondo wamba."[6]
Ndi atsogoleri aku Russia 'ndi akuluakulu ena aku Israeli omwe adaphimbidwa komanso osabisa ziwopsezo zanyukiliya pankhondo zawo zolimbana ndi Ukraine ndi Hamas, Russia ndi Israel onse akhala akugwiritsa ntchito zida zawo zanyukiliya motere - mpaka pano. Koma n’zosakayikitsa kuti nkhondozi zikamapitirizabe, m’pamenenso ziwopsezo za mikangano ya m’madera ambiri ndiponso kuthekera kwa kukwera kwa zida za nyukiliya kumakulirakulira.
Malo ena owopsa a zida za nyukiliya ndi Taiwan, Korea Peninsula, ndi South Asia. Kukula ndi nthawi yamasewera ankhondo ndi mayiko okhala ndi zida za nyukiliya ndi ogwirizana nawo akuchulukirachulukira. Kuyesa kwa zida za nyukiliya kosalekeza, ndi kukumana pafupipafupi pakati pa magulu ankhondo a mayiko okhala ndi zida za nyukiliya kumawonjezera ngozi zanyukiliya.
Ziwopsezo zaposachedwa za utsogoleri waku Russia zadzutsa nkhawa za kuthekera kwa nkhondo ya nyukiliya, koma zoona zake, takhala tikukhala mumthunzi wamtambo wa bowa mosalekeza kuyambira 1945.
Mu 1946, Lewis Mumford analemba kuti, “Simungathe kuyankhula ngati anthu oganiza bwino mozungulira tebulo lamtendere pomwe bomba la atomiki likuyenda pansi pake. Osatengera bomba la atomiki ngati chida chokhumudwitsa; osachitenga ngati chida cha apolisi. Chitani zomwe zili bomba: misala yowoneka ya anthu otukuka omwe asiya kulambira moyo ndi kumvera malamulo a moyo.”[7]
[1] The Economics and Sociology of Capitalism - Joseph A. Schumpeter - Google Books
[2] Lindsey Koshgarian, Kuchepetsa Chiwopsezo cha Nkhondo ya Nyukiliya 2024 (youtube.com), Jan. 13, 2024
[3] US-Nuclear-Weapons-Modernization-Costs-Constraints-Fact-Sheet-v-May-2023.pdf (armscontrolcenter.org)
[4] Lindsey Koshgarian, ibid
[5] Ziwerengero pa Billboard Zafotokozedwa - World BEYOND War
[6] Kupanga 21st-Century Strategic Deterrence | Zokambirana - February 2021 Vol. 147/2/1,416 (usni.org)
[7] Lewis Mumford, "Amuna: Mwapenga!" Kubwereza Zolemba Loweruka, 2 March 1946, anasonkhanitsidwa ku Bird ndi Lifschultz Chidziwitso cha 1998, 284, 286
