Opportunity costs of
nuclear-weapons programs
In the next 10 years, $1 trillion USD will be invested globally into development and maintanance of nuclear-weapons programs.
This money could instead cover all the following:
280 billion
Feeding all 780 million malnourished people in the world for 10 years
200 billion
Building 2–100 million houses
100 billion
Building 400–400,000 hospitals or clinics
100 billion
Yearly salaries for 2–10 million teachers
80 billion
Preventive health care for all Africans reducing infant and maternal mortality by 80%
55 billion
UN budget for 10 years
30 billion
3 million home solar panel systems
30 billion
1 million wind turbines
25 billion
1 million electric cars
25 billion
Tuition for 200,000 students for 5 years each at top USA universities
20 billion
10 years of ART drugs for all 28 million HIV infected people in Africa
14 billion
Rebuilding Haiti after the earthquake
10 billion
67 million clean biomass stoves saving 4 million lives per year
8 billion
Planting and growing 20 billion trees in Africa
8 billion
Eliminating malaria in 10 years saving half million lives per year
5 billion
1 million fresh water wells in Africa
Note: The numbers range as costs vary a lot between developed and developing countries.