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iy, the faterse preven 4s 4n exopss of $100 million e weeke nes pointed et that | *rany of the inttetoents Ate@risa so bedly needs, such as sohools, hospitals, high- WOYS, tnd mre edequate assistende for the unfortimate, oeuld be finansed out of money that is currently being wasted through poor business management." Just how much money does ‘defense cost in terms of what e else might be purchased with ‘the sexe amunt of moénosy? The overall cost of introduving the atlas intercontinental ballistios missile into our armed forces will average about $36,000,000 por missile on the firing Lines 4s en example, the amount spent for one missile would ‘Provide @ach of the 36 aoune ties in Oreg gon with a new $1,000,000 school. . The latest atomic submarines will cost $50,000,000 eache (Three are budgeted for Fiscel Year 1960.) This total sum $150, 000,000 - could provide a now $3,000,000 hospital for all cities in the U.S. with a population of 200,000 Or mre. A single Be&8 bombor costs $26,700,000. Converted into gooial and eoonomis neods, this amounts to about 1,300 new $20,000 hones to house more than 6,000 peopla. ‘Menporore Acoording to Premier Khrushchev, “if wa consider in addition to the talitery the nuzbor of people direotly or indirectly connected with the production of arms and involved in various branches of military resoarch, we will find thet more then 100,000,000 have been taken away from their fruitful labors." In the U.S., it has been estimated that about 15 percent + or over 9,000,000 - of the lebor foros is engaged in work on military orders. In addition, 2-8 million are in the _ ermed forces. Probably, all totalled, some 13 or 14,000,000 persons in the U.S, ere tngesed direstly or indirestly in defense activities. Some speoifio indistries, of eourse, have much larger peroentares then the labor force es a whole - electronics, aircreft, certain classes of machinery production, chemicals, shiptutlding. (Tho aircraft, shipbuilding, and electronios industries alone would account for consid erebly over 1,000,000 full-time defense workerse AS snother example, about 90 per- Cent of the aircraft industry production is for the militarye) I+ is theso indus- tries, of course, that would bear the brimt of contract cutbaoks due to a disarmn~ mect egreemmt. , Defense Needs Govern Alle Defense needs have not only soaked up much of the labor end taxes of the american people, they have also hed a direct impact on all aspects of lifo in the United Stetes. For example, they have limited the extent to which all levols of governmont have been able to provide some of the vitally needod Publie services such os area redevolopment, aid for the aging, school construoticn, eta. Teahr.ological advance has bocn extons ively based upen end conditicnad by tha Federal Government's dofense programe For example, it might be pointed out that federal support for research and daveloprant in a variety of areas was estimated not long ago to represent epproximately 50 percent of total cxvenditures in this coumtry for research today. In Fiscal Year 1957, Federal expenditurss for this Category were estimated at $2.6 billion. But 84 peroot of this total wns for me jor national notlenal soourity activitiese Ono-fifth of this amount went to the Atemic Phorey Conmission vith only a small frection alloostad for the development of perceful earpliontions of nualanr enorgy. In the samo your, government