From 1964 to 1970, U.S. defense spending never fell below 40% of the total federal budget.

From 1970 to 1980, U.S. defense spending steadily decreased as a portion of the federal budget from 40% to 23%.

In 1974, during the OPEC oil embargo, oil prices in the U.S. increased by 400%.

On October 30th, 1961, a Russian bomber dropped the Tsar Bomb, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. The Tsar Bomb's force was equal to 50 million tons of TNT, making it thousands of times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

American Aid to Israel

1970: $71 million
1973: $467 million
1974: $2.6 billion

Number of Warheads in the American Nuclear Arsenal

1959: 15,468
1960: 20,434
1961: 24,156
1962: 27,305
1963: 29,049
1964: 30,400
1965: 31,265
1966: 31,323
1967: 30,516
1968: 28,507
1969: 26,533
1970: 25,742
1971: 25,988
1972: 26,919
1973: 27,958
1974: 27,793
1975: 26,675
1976: 25,579
1977: 24,722
1978: 23,866
1979: 23,730
1980: 23,387