I will guarentee that certain countries would be the last to disarm and suddenly have a change of heart, at the 11th hour, as they recognize their newly acquired nuclear dominance Worldwide.
That's never going to happen. The discovery of nuclear fission and its applications as a weapon is a bell that cannot be unrung. As long that knowledge exists, there will be people out there trying to apply it, trying to make nuclear weapons. Therefore the most powerful entities in the world will insist on having them as a matter of dominance. I mean do you really think the US is going to lay down their nukes and then just hope someone like Iran doesn't build one and become the dominant superpower in the world who can now push the US around? Of course not.
Nukes are a fact of life. Get used to them because they aren't going anywhere. Not unless you can think of a way to delete all human knowledge of what nukes are, how they work and how to build them.
I will guarentee that certain countries would be the last to disarm and suddenly have a change of heart, at the 11th hour, as they recognize their newly acquired nuclear dominance Worldwide.
It was agreed at Reykjavik that these bombs will never be used.
That's never going to happen. The discovery of nuclear fission and its applications as a weapon is a bell that cannot be unrung. As long that knowledge exists, there will be people out there trying to apply it, trying to make nuclear weapons. Therefore the most powerful entities in the world will insist on having them as a matter of dominance. I mean do you really think the US is going to lay down their nukes and then just hope someone like Iran doesn't build one and become the dominant superpower in the world who can now push the US around? Of course not.
Nukes are a fact of life. Get used to them because they aren't going anywhere. Not unless you can think of a way to delete all human knowledge of what nukes are, how they work and how to build them.
Ellsberg's greatest regret is his failure to release a second Pentagon Papers to stop nuclear war. In his ground-breaking 2017 book “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear Planner”
Why isn't Canada among these voices?