Nuclear weapons threaten us all

This month is the 80th anniversary of testing and use of nuclear bombs by the United States.

First the testing was July 16, 1945, in Alamogordo air base in New Mexico. Then the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.

Now we have a time when there is a breakdown of limiting nuclear weapons as treaties are expiring. The New START treaty), between US and Russia expires in February 2026.

The plan to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal, as in the recent budget passed by Congress, will cost $95 billion per year and will lead to, by some estimates, trillions being spent for modernizing nuclear weapons.