Transcript: How to Spend 1.5 Billion Dollars

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Pinky: You see this airplane? It's a United States Air Force B2 stealth bomber. It's one of the main airplanes the United States uses to bomb stuff... and people. You wanna guess how much one of these things costs? Well, they are 1.5 billion dollars each. Each, okay? Billion, not million. That's an amount of money most people can't even comprehend.

I mean, let me put it this way: if you had a good job that paid you, $50,000 dollars a year, and you never had to spend any of it and you could just save all your money all the time, it would still take you 30,000 years to save up the $1.5 billion to buy your very own B2 bomber.

Now, whether or not you think that's crazy, I guess that depends on how important you think it is to be able to bomb people and things on the far side of the planet with impunity. To some people, you can't put a price on such things.

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Credits: How to Spend 1.5 Billion Dollars

episode number: 060315-01
release date: March 15, 2006
 
writing: Pinky
research: Pinky
bibliography:

A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Arial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting. Marc Herold, Ph.D.
< http://pubpages.unh.edu/%7Emwherold/ >

The Center for Defense Information
< http://www.cdi.org/issues/aviation/B296.html >

United States Department of Defence
< http://www.defenselink.mil/ >

narration: Pinky
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drawings & illustrations: Pinky
other images: titles by Pinky
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military airplane
B2 bomber: U.S. Department of Defence
< http://www.defenselink.mil >

movie special effects
fake bombing effects: Giant Ant Special Effects
< http://www.giant-ant-special-effects.com/
viewer/credits_viewer.php >

destroyed buildings
real bombing effects: Ruins of an International Red Cross warehouse in Kabul, after being hit by U.S. bombs. Photo by Amir Shah (Associated Press).

casualties of war
real bombing effects: Zari Gul, injured in U.S. bombing attack in Afghanistan. Twelve members of Zari's family, including four of her children, were killed in the attacks. Photo by Jerry Lampen (Reuters).


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