Dear Editor,
Nobody can believe that the “United States will take concrete steps towards a world without nuclear weapons”. In A People’s History of the United States, American historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn says: “At the start of 1950, the total U.S. budget was about $40 billion, and the military part of it was about $12 billion. But by 1955, the military part alone was $40 billion out of a total of $62 billion. By 1970, the U.S. military budget was $80 billion and the corporations involved in military production were making fortunes. By 1962, the United States had overwhelming nuclear superiority. It had the equivalent, in nuclear weapons, of 1,500 Hiroshima-size atomic bombs, far more than enough to
