An Awesome Mystery Solved - The "Peace" Paradox

 Though  1986 was proclaimed by the UN to be the Internation Year of Peace, the suicidal armaments race escalated.  World Militar and Social Expenditures 1986 supplies these sobering details: 

In 1986 global military expendutures  reached 900 million.

One hour's global military expenditures would have sufficed to immunize the 3.5 million who died annually from preventable disease.

Worldwide, one person in five lived in gnawing poverty. All these starvin people could been fed for one year at the cost of what the world spentfor armaments in two days. 

The explosive energy in the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons waa 160,000,00 times greater  then that if Chernobyl explosion.

A nuclear bomb could have been delivered having the explosive power  more than 500 times as powerful as the bomb dropped over Hiroshima  in 1945.  

Nuclear arsenals contained the equivalent of more than one million  Hiroshimas.  They represented 2,700 times the explosive energy  released in World War ii, when 38 million people died. 

Wars had become more frequent and more deadly. War deaths totaled 4.4 million in the 18th century, 8.3 million in the 19th century,  98.8  million in the first 86 years of the 20th century.  Since the 18th century, war deaths have increased more and more than six times faster than the world's population.  There ten times as many deaths per war in the 20th century as in the 19th. 

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