Hoorary for noocular bombs on our side.
No, no, no,no, Mq!
Nukes are ugly, bad things, regardless of who has them, at least at this point in the history of the Stupid Human Race, while we're still acting like drunken chimpanzees.
Look at it this way:
Someone with great foresight in the late 1940s would have known that the genie would have inevitably popped out of the bottle and not offer anyone the option of fulfilling three wishes. The wise thing to have done was to utterly, ruthlessly and credibly destroyed the technology after using it in WWII, then instituted severe controls on the production of enriched material in atomic power plants because, face it, the first pro-life-[a]rators were the Rosenbergs.
If we didn't have the evil things after WWII, the Russkies wouldn't have wanted them either since there would have been nothing to get MAD about
Everyone wants the stuff because it makes your tribe powerful. Better to have gotten rid of the stuff forever, then controlled its development with an iron hand.
The Russians gave the technology to the Chinese, we shared it with the Brits, Eisenhower went all loosey-goosey with Atoms For Peace, the Chinese gave it to the Pakistanis and probably the Indians, the Pakistanis gave it to the nutsoid N. Koreans who may be selling it to anyone with the dollars to pay for the technology, and now everyone is worried sick that OBL and his ilk will end up with the stuff.
This was all perfectly foreseeable. It could have been nipped in the bud.
The process will be repeated in 20 years when the issue won't be how to control large difficult to transport atomic weapons but how to deal with portable devices too difficult to detect.
So, no, no hurrahs for our nukes or anyone elses'. They are too dangerous, and we're too collectively stupid to be trusted with them. No one is/was thinking ahead the 30 to 40 to 50 years which their danger requires.
After we are all dead and gone, what guarantee is there that our successors won't go hog-wild stupid with our nuclear stuff, or that anyone else from the West who claims to have it "legitimately" won't get stupid and sell it to whatever nutzo group is ranting and raving at the time?
It's too late now, of course. The jinni is out of the bottle. Just wait, there will be atomic holes all over the planet in cities like Delhi, Karachi, NYC, Tel Aviv, etc. I fear it's just a matter of time.
We're simply not yet wise enough as a species to properly deal with this kind of weapon. |
