JAST … What Did You Have in Mind?

C. E. (Chuck) Myers, Jr. Proceedings, November, 1995.
http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/95myers.pdf

Excerpt:

[the defense] community has again embarked upon an expensive design and construction exercise focused on ‘form,’ which historically breeds powerful technology-business coalitions and political constituencies that become virtually unstoppable.

Editor’s comment:

The JAST became the JSF and Myers was right about the rest.

Four Trillion Dollars and Counting

Stephen I Schwartz, editor. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project Committee, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 1995.
http://books.google.com/books?id=DQwAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Excerpt:

…one quarter to one third of all military spending since World War II has been devoted to nuclear weapons and their infrastructure…