“The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing in renewable clean energy, and solving a host of other important challenges facing humanity.”

— Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

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