What a waste

Did you know that the United States alone has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 18 times?

Neither did I, until I started researching for the legislation we're doing for our mock Congress activity in Gov. But now, I'm astonished at the blatant and useless wastefulness employed by our federal government under the false label of "national defense".

Why do we have 8,900 more bombs than we need? In what logical plane of mind was this deemed a "good idea"? It doesn't even make sense!

I made a comment about this to Chad, our speaker of the house, in hopes that he would choose this bill to represent my committee during our Congress session. Logan overheard, and was outraged at my idea to disarm our nuclear warheads to the amount that would destroy the world once. (approx. 500, in case you were wondering)

"How are we going to get the terrorists?" he demanded.

Unfortunately, the bell cut off my chance to retort, but really the only thing I could have said would have been "Have your stringent political opinions tarnished your ability for logical reasoning?"

There is no reason to have that many nuclear weapons. They're just festering wounds in our national debt that we ignore out of pride. Previous to this post, I wrote about fixing the economy by legalizing marijuana. Following along the same idea, I think we should also look to disarming and recycling nuclear bombs to revive our flailing finances. (I think I should get AP lit points for that top-notch alliteration)

According to the New York Times, America is already using recycled Russian warheads from the Cold War for 10% of our electricity. "Enriching raw uranium is more expensive than converting highly enriched uranium to fuel grade. To make fuel for electricity-generating reactors, uranium is enriched to less than 5 percent of the isotope U-235. To make weapons, it is enriched to about 90 percent U-235."

Essentially, not only would recycling uranium from our excess of nuclear weapons make more sense than keeping them stagnant and useless as bombs, but it would also be cheaper and feasible. What are we waiting for, America?

Final thoughts:

1. Disarming 94% of our nuclear weapons makes us no less susceptible to nuclear attack, because we'd still have enough to annihilate the planet
2. Fossil fuels are running low, and we're getting progressively more pressed for time to find an alternative
3. The 8,900 excess in nuclear bombs that we have are not only useless in war, but also is financial respects