$80 Billion

Eighty billion dollars! That’s hard for me to visualize. I have trouble with any amount over $1 million. Eighty billion dollars for nuclear weapons we don’t need (“Nuclear Weapon Plants Held to Need $80 Billion,” Part I, Dec. 12). We already have all it takes to blow up the world and pollute the atmosphere.

Still, I think $80 billion would make a big dent in housing for the homeless and food for the hungry. We speak of peace on earth and prepare to blow it up. Doesn’t somebody care enough to do something about it? Jean Gump cared (Part I, Dec. 4-6). Perhaps there are others like her, who simply haven’t voiced their concern.

HARRIET L. AXELRAD

Pacific Palisades