The Cost of Arming America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9761185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerhard Colm (United States Bureau of the Budget, Washington, D. C., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1941 |
| Volume | 214 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-13 |
| Publication date | 1941-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271624121400103 |
| OpenAlex | W2050412319 |
| Language | EN |
IT APPEARS easy to compute the cost of arming America, for apparently it is only necessary to sum up the defense requirements from the budget document for the current and the next fiscal years. According to the Budget Message, appropriations and authorizations enacted for national defense from June 1940 up to the present time, plus the recommendations for supplementary appropriations and authorizations for 1941, plus the recommendations contained in the budget for 1942, amount to $28,500,000,000. Is $28,500,000,000, then, the cost of arming America
Authorization · Business · Computer security · Federal budget · Fiscal year · Operations research · Political science · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Military and Defense Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |