This cogent article was sent by UUJEC member, Mona Lee, who develops imaginative displays for Ground Zero's demonstrations to end nuclear proliferation. The article, which quotes the prescient President Eisenhower, shows the extraordinary price tag (up to a trillion dollars) for updating our nuclear arsenal which should be spent instead on protecting and improving schools, infrastructure, human services and quality of human and environmental life, thus providing jobs and ending poverty. Lucy Hitchcock, Sultan, WA