Volume 27, Number 5 · April 3, 1980

Boom and Bust

By Emma Rothschild
Department of Defense Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1981
by Harold Brown Secretary of Defense

Department of Defense

The United States may buy itself two things with its $1 trillion defense budget of 1981 to 1985. The first is an economic decline of the sort that comes about once or twice in a century. The second is a nuclear war.



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