“A new nuke wave washes over the world,” Axios wrote on March 19. In country after country, discussion and action aimed at acquiring or boosting nuclear power is increasing, heightening the threat of nuclear World War iii. Yet our world is asleep!
Europe believes it can no longer depend on America’s nuclear umbrella. Germany wants access to other European nukes and is even considering building its own. France has agreed to share its nukes. South Korea, also questioning United States support, is contemplating the nuclear option. Japan says if South Korea can have nukes, it can too. China has “significantly expanded” its nuclear program, “fielding more types and greater numbers of nuclear weapons than ever before,” the Federation of American Scientists warns. Terrorist-sponsoring Iran is extremely close to nuclear weapons of its own and has rejected Western pressure to back off.
Back in 1924, Winston Churchill wrote an essay about advancements in military technology titled “Shall We All Commit Suicide?” He foresaw the atomic age two decades before it began. “Mankind has never been in this position before,” he wrote. “Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination. That is the point in human destinies to which all the glories and toils of men have at last led them. They would do well to pause and ponder upon their new responsibilities.
“A new nuke wave washes over the world,” Axios wrote on March 19. In country after country, discussion and action aimed at acquiring or boosting nuclear power is increasing, heightening the threat of nuclear World War iii. Yet our world is asleep!
Europe believes it can no longer depend on America’s nuclear umbrella. Germany wants access to other European nukes and is even considering building its own. France has agreed to share its nukes. South Korea, also questioning United States support, is contemplating the nuclear option. Japan says if South Korea can have nukes, it can too. China has “significantly expanded” its nuclear program, “fielding more types and greater numbers of nuclear weapons than ever before,” the Federation of American Scientists warns. Terrorist-sponsoring Iran is extremely close to nuclear weapons of its own and has rejected Western pressure to back off.
Back in 1924, Winston Churchill wrote an essay about advancements in military technology titled “Shall We All Commit Suicide?” He foresaw the atomic age two decades before it began. “Mankind has never been in this position before,” he wrote. “Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination. That is the point in human destinies to which all the glories and toils of men have at last led them. They would do well to pause and ponder upon their new responsibilities.
“A new nuke wave washes over the world,” Axios wrote on March 19. In country after country, discussion and action aimed at acquiring or boosting nuclear power is increasing, heightening the threat of nuclear World War iii. Yet our world is asleep!
Europe believes it can no longer depend on America’s nuclear umbrella. Germany wants access to other European nukes and is even considering building its own. France has agreed to share its nukes. South Korea, also questioning United States support, is contemplating the nuclear option. Japan says if South Korea can have nukes, it can too. China has “significantly expanded” its nuclear program, “fielding more types and greater numbers of nuclear weapons than ever before,” the Federation of American Scientists warns. Terrorist-sponsoring Iran is extremely close to nuclear weapons of its own and has rejected Western pressure to back off.
Back in 1924, Winston Churchill wrote an essay about advancements in military technology titled “Shall We All Commit Suicide?” He foresaw the atomic age two decades before it began. “Mankind has never been in this position before,” he wrote. “Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination. That is the point in human destinies to which all the glories and toils of men have at last led them. They would do well to pause and ponder upon their new responsibilities.
