A new report from ICAN — Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons spending — names names and produces some horrifying spending numbers, made all the more immoral by the desperate needs around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the ever worsening conditions brought on by the climate crisis.
As the report notes, “In 2020, during the worst global pandemic in a century, nine nuclear-armed states spent $72.6 billion on their nuclear weapons, more than $137,000 per minute, an inflation adjusted increase of $1.4 billion from last year.”
It goes on to ask the obvious question: Why? The answer lies in the profits to be made by the world’s nuclear weapons companies, not to mention the funding flowing to a few think tanks, some of which have missions that should make taking this money unacceptable. “Not only does this report reveal the massive spending on nuclear weapons during the worst global pandemic in a century, it also shines a light on the shadowy connection between the private companies building nuclear weapons, lobbyists and think tanks,” wrote ICAN’s Susi Snyder in an email to launch the report.
She also narrates this short video below that explains the findings.
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The executive summary of the report then calls out the names of the countries, companies and think tanks complicit in effectively planning the world’s destruction.
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Think tank reported income from nuclear weapon producers
Atlantic Council: $835,000 – $1,724,998
Brookings Institution: $275,000 – $549,998
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: $50,000 – 199,998
Center for New American Security: $1,085,000 – $1,874,991
Center for Strategic and International Studies: $1,530,000 – $2,794,997
Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS): amount not specified
French Institute of International Relations: amount not specified
Hudson Institute: $170,000 – $350,000
International Institute of Strategic Studies: $800,640 – $1,146,744
Observer Research Foundation: $71,539
Royal United Services Institute: $610,210 – $1,445,581
Stimson Center: $50,500
Total $5 – 10 million
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