Donald Trump
is an ignorant megalomaniac, a self-serving buffoon. There is nothing he has done during his presidency
that I agree with - until now.
The most
dangerous threat to human existence is not global warming or AI; it is an
unstable man or a religious fanatic with a nuclear weapon.
The Middle
East is a region of turmoil and religious mania, destabilizing the entire world.
Nations have pussyfooted
long enough, trying to delay Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon.
Iran can not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon – ever - as it would bring the whole world one step closer to nuclear annihilation.
Finally,
someone, Donald Trump, has taken a decisive step to prevent Iran from ever
developing a nuclear weapon.
How much safer are we?
The largest
nuclear bomb ever exploded was Russia’s Tsar bomb in 1961, releasing the power
of 50 million tons of TNT. Today’s
nuclear weapons range from 1.2 megatons to …?
There are
enough nuclear weapons in existence today to destroy the entire world one hundred
times over.
It could
start with the use of ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons, the size of the bomb dropped
on Hiroshima. Then escalate.
Look at the history
of mankind. How long will it be?
Man shall
have dominion over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps
upon the earth.
Elizabeth
Kolbert book, The 6th Extinction tracks the catastrophic
events that led to five extinction on planet Earth.The 6th extinction to be brought
about by mankind, ‘who has led a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature’, and has drastically altered earth’s climate over a duration of one century.
Her new book,
Under a White Sky reviews man’s technological research to deal
with the results of the climate change we are presently witnessing.
There is no
doubt that the world we live in will look dramatically different in one-hundred
years; if we survive this era.Mankind
is only limited by the speed of his ability to compute and the volume of
information he can retrieve; and with super computers mankind has conquered that
deficiency. There is some confidence in
the scientific community (the brain trust of mankind) that we will be able to adjust
to the changing climate.
CASSANDRA
PROPHECY
Cassandra
was priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology; cursed to utter true prophecies,
but never to be believed.
Though
climate change is of major concern to the survival of the human race, it is not
the elephant in the room, the most likely scenario to apocalyptic destruction
of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
We are
looking at the possibility of another massive war in Europe.But this only highlights the concern.
Nuclear
weapons have proliferated through the earth’s nations: Chins, North Korea, Pakistan,
India, undoubtedly Israel, soon to be Iran; and of course, the United States
and Russia.
The world
has two nuclear super powers, each with the capability of destroying all life
on earth many times over.So far, we
have had reasonable men holding the reins on the world nuclear arsenals; but
that is not a guarantee.
President
Trump asked general Kelly why we have nuclear weapons and don’t use them?
In Ronald
Regan’s last year in office, he suffered from dementia.Donald Trump was called a moron by his Chief
of Staff.The world is full of despots, and
then we have religious fanatical states each looking forward to an end of the
world scenario.It is not beyond belief
today that Republicans could elect Marjory Taylor Green or that ilk to be in
charge of our nuclear arsenal.
We should
not believe that nuclear weapons will never be deployed against humanity.It had been done before.In
1945 two very primitive nuclear weapons destroyed two Japanese cities killing over
three-hundred-and-fifty-thousand civilians.
This is a scenario
waiting to happen.
Mankind still possesses a primitive strain in his DNA that effects the species beyond reason.
