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222 Robin Truth Goodman<br />

Pentagon over <strong>the</strong> next six years and <strong>the</strong> political consensus <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> necessity for<br />

a missile defense system (even as feasibility tests have failed) and <strong>the</strong> $400 billion<br />

appropriation for three new tactical aircraft programs and <strong>the</strong> continued<br />

expenditure <strong>of</strong> $2.5 billion per plane on <strong>the</strong> B-2 bomber—a plane designed to<br />

penetrate <strong>the</strong> air defenses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Soviet Union, a nation that no longer existed.<br />

33. Upton Sinclair, Oil! (Berkeley: University <strong>of</strong> California Press, 1996),<br />

p. 27.<br />

34. Ibid., p. 507.

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