Here is what you could do with $30 billion dollars (£21 billion at current rates of conversion), an average estimate for the cost of the National Missile Defence project
- Build 210 new hospitals
- Pay off the national debt of the world's 63 poorest countries - and still have a $1bn change!
- Employ one million nurses in the UK for a year (based on figures supplied by CND)
- Employ 714,000 teachers in the UK for a year (CND)
Repair all of the UK's crumbling schools - and still have something like £18 billion change (CND)
Updated: 16:42 Thursday, February 07, 2002
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