$417,000,000,000 in military spending, or ...

Annual Amount Needed to Address the World's Top Global Issues

• Eliminate Starvation and Malnutrition ($19 billion)
• Provide Shelter ($21 billion)
• Remove Landmines ($4 billion)
• Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ($7 billion)
• Refugee Relief ($5 billion)
• Eliminate Illiteracy ($5 billion)
• Provide Clean, Safe Water ($10 billion)
• Provide Health Care and AIDS Control ($21 billion)
• Stabilize Population ($10.5 billion)
• Prevent Soil Erosion ($24 billion)
• Retire Developing Nations Debt ($30 billion)

Figures are from the World Game Institute, based on an annual budget with a 10 year period needed to achieve complete success.

If you do the math you'll realize that all the sum of those numbers is some 260.5 billion dollars less than the US defense budget for 2005 alone.

(I found this over at Matt Good's website)