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At no time, including the Cuban missile crisis, have we stood closer to the precipice of nuclear war.
The U.S. government’s military spending excess — when compared with the rest of the world — is down somewhat due mostly to troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan but still accounts for 39 percent of the global total, according to a new international…