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Hekmat Aboukhater

Hekmat Aboukhater is a researcher at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

Northrop Group, Bechtel and Lockhead Martin logos in front of a nuclear blast (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why is the U.S. spending $2 trillion on more weapons that could end the world?

Hekmat Aboukhater, William D. Hartung