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Yes, Prime Minister · Season 2, Episode 7

Hacker and Sir Humphrey in “The National Education Service”

[reading from a list of quiz questions] Maths has become politicized - "If it costs 5 billion pounds a year to maintain Britain's nuclear defenses, and 75 pounds a year to feed a starving African child, how many African children could be saved from starvation if the Ministry of Defense abandoned nuclear weapons?"

That's easy, none. They'd spend it all on conventional weapons.

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