As Iran rattles its rockets, I can only reflect that we have been so fucking lucky with regard to thermo nuclear global annihilation that I fear it has made us all kinda blasé. After finessing our way through the sixty some years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through the Cold War, Mutually Assured Destruction, Vietnam, the Reagan era and two Gulf wars. Pakistan v India, and Kim Jong-il without popping so much as a single nuke, we may now be pushing our luck. Nuclear proliferation was one of those things that George Bush didn’t much like and thus idiots were put in charge, which essentially allows Bush buddies in the Pakistani almost-military junta to sell nuke tech to anyone who can pony up the scratch. I mean, Wal-Mart could have a bomb if it wanted one. Or Paul McCartney. (And don’t even mention the Russian mob in the context of nukes.) Without drastic and probably impossible international reforms, it’s a Vegas certainty that a real nut-job will get an atomic WMD and then, brothers and sisters, we will really see history being made.
The secret word is Failsafe
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2 comments:
Nuclear explosions. Seems like when the subject comes up now it does not come up for long.
My money's on hazmat stuff rather than the big booms... problem with betting on the end of the world is that in all likelihood, you're not going to be able to cash in on it.
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