On Saturday, Pedro Sánchez stepped onto the stage of the Munich Security Conference for the first time as Prime Minister of Spain. He did so with a speech that clashed head-on with the current trend among world powers. His message was direct: nuclear rearmament will not protect anyone from Vladimir Putin.
The figures Sánchez used put his argument into context. The powers spend more than $11 million every hour on nuclear weapons. The US alone will spend $946 billion on nuclear weapons over the next decade.
