Military Spending

• 1944 - peak American military spending during WWII: $85.5 million
• 1948: $16 million
  • Total supplies flown into besieged West Berlin during the 1948 Berlin Airlift: 2.5 million tons¹
• 1952: $48 million³

Foreign Policy Cost

• Truman Doctrine: $400 million (in financial and military aid to Greece and Turkey)
• Marshall Plan: $13 billion (in economic assistance to rebuild Western Europe)

Bomb Power

• "Little Boy" Hiroshima atomic bomb - August 6th, 1945: 12,500 tons of TNT
• "Fat Man" Nagasaki atomic bomb - August 8th, 1945: 22,000 tons of TNT
• First hydrogen bomb explosion test - November 1st, 1955: 10.4 million tons of TNT⁴

Number of CIA Employees Involved in Covert Operations

• 1949: 302
• 1952: 2,812, plus another 3,142 overseas "contract personnel"⁵

Number of Warheads in the American Nuclear Arsenal

• 1945: 6
• 1946: 11
• 1947: 32
• 1948: 110
• 1949: 235
• 1950: 369
• 1951: 640
• 1952: 1005
• 1953: 1436
• 1954: 2063
• 1955: 3057
• 1956: 4618
• 1957: 6444
• 1958: 9822
• 1959: 15,468
• 1960: 20,434
• 1961: 24,156
• 1962: 27,305
• 1963: 29,049²