Saudi Arabia`s Crown Prince has stated that "Without a doubt, Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons to match Iran".
North Korea was bad enough, but now Nuke capabilities in The Middle East...?
I have this growing sense of unease over the certainty that sooner or later one of these 'Gotta-Get-Nukes!' nations is going to touch off a Nuclear war.
This will come out of a mix of inflexibility, immaturity, and worst of all; the gradual softening of attitudes towards what used to be 'Thinking The Unthinkable'; that Nuclear was is something that anyone can actually 'win'.
When the original 'A-Bomb's were detonated waaay back in 1945, the entire planet was shocked by the size of the explosions. They were in AWE of them, and afraid--justifiably so.
As time passed, and more Nukes went up in tests, that awe and fear continued...but over time, began to temper with .. acceptance and familiarity.
Now, i greatly fear that acceptance and fear have given way to that most dangerous of all human failings; COMPLACENCY. What used to be feared is now actively sought after as a 'must-have' addition to arsenals, and a Nuclear Sabre to be rattled all-too-quickly.
I am becoming ever-more concerned and near-certain that this general complacency can only result in death on a scale that humanity has never seen....
Death, not out of any valid reason for conflict, but out of hubris, as nations seem to have forgotten the horror of such mass destruction, the waste on such a grand scale. Entire nations are rolling towards aggressive nuclear posturing, supported by that most dangerous and fragile of supports; FALSE CONFIDENCE.
Waay back in 1983 (November 20th, my birthday, ironically) I watched the tv movie "The Day After".... Detailing the realities of the aftermath of a Nuclear Exchange....
It remains to this day, THE ONE movie that I have sworn never to watch again.
Now I see volatile leaders of nations proudly posturing about their Nuclear Weapon plans.....
Common Sense would have one believe that surely, no one would want to actively court their own destruction..
The trouble is; sense is not all that common these days.
North Korea was bad enough, but now Nuke capabilities in The Middle East...?
I have this growing sense of unease over the certainty that sooner or later one of these 'Gotta-Get-Nukes!' nations is going to touch off a Nuclear war.
This will come out of a mix of inflexibility, immaturity, and worst of all; the gradual softening of attitudes towards what used to be 'Thinking The Unthinkable'; that Nuclear was is something that anyone can actually 'win'.
When the original 'A-Bomb's were detonated waaay back in 1945, the entire planet was shocked by the size of the explosions. They were in AWE of them, and afraid--justifiably so.
As time passed, and more Nukes went up in tests, that awe and fear continued...but over time, began to temper with .. acceptance and familiarity.
Now, i greatly fear that acceptance and fear have given way to that most dangerous of all human failings; COMPLACENCY. What used to be feared is now actively sought after as a 'must-have' addition to arsenals, and a Nuclear Sabre to be rattled all-too-quickly.
I am becoming ever-more concerned and near-certain that this general complacency can only result in death on a scale that humanity has never seen....
Death, not out of any valid reason for conflict, but out of hubris, as nations seem to have forgotten the horror of such mass destruction, the waste on such a grand scale. Entire nations are rolling towards aggressive nuclear posturing, supported by that most dangerous and fragile of supports; FALSE CONFIDENCE.
Waay back in 1983 (November 20th, my birthday, ironically) I watched the tv movie "The Day After".... Detailing the realities of the aftermath of a Nuclear Exchange....
It remains to this day, THE ONE movie that I have sworn never to watch again.
Now I see volatile leaders of nations proudly posturing about their Nuclear Weapon plans.....
Common Sense would have one believe that surely, no one would want to actively court their own destruction..
The trouble is; sense is not all that common these days.
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