Let me interject a present example that poses the relationship nicely. It goes, not into the Defense budget, but the Energy budget. It is by far the largest item in that budget, consuming well over one-third of it. The next largest item in it is nuclear power. Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are two sides of the same coin.
Nuclear power is life-threatening in three independent ways, each in itself formidable.
First is the threat of accident in nuclear power plants. This book tells in some detail the story of the accident at Three Mile Island. Those great realists, the American insurance companies, refused from the beginning to insure nuclear power plants. This is not only, as already said, perhaps the most toxic substance known. It is also the most convenient material from which to make fission bombs.