Global Pwnage

$1.12 trillion is the latest official estimate of how much the US government has spent to fight its post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other sundry majority-Islamic nations, according to the Congressional Research Service.

$3 trillion is how much Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would eventually cost US taxpayers.

$32 billion—or £20 billion—is how much Stiglitz and his co-author, Linda Bilmes, figured UK taxpayers would pay toward those wars.

$21.4 million is how much the US Air Force has awarded two subsidiaries of the British contractor BAE Systems to “design a new computer system that is highly resistant to cyber-attack, is resilient in that it continues to render useful services in the face of attacks and faults, and can repair itself”—or in other words, Skynet).

$6 billion is the highest estimated cost of the Bushehr nuclear reactor complex in Iran, reportedly the apparent target of the Stuxnet worm, described as the “best malware ever.”