War: Does nuclear tonnage out weigh an ounce of morality?
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son – Music Video
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
DOOMSDAY CLOCK - IT IS 5 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
2007: The world stands at the brink of a second nuclear age. The United States and Russia remain ready to stage a nuclear attack within minutes, North Korea conducts a nuclear test, and many in the international community worry that Iran plans to acquire the Bomb. Climate change also presents a dire challenge to humanity. Damage to ecosystems is already taking place; flooding, destructive storms, increased drought, and polar ice melt are causing loss of life and property. (www.thebulletin.org)
Two years after the bombing plants growing at ground zero presaged the frightening genetic aberrations in humans that were to come: sesame stalks produced 33 percent more seeds but 90 percent of them were sterile. For decades abnormally high amounts of cancer, birth defects, and tumors haunted victims.
Does nuclear tonnage out weigh an ounce of morality?
The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century’s major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians.
~Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action
This fascinating insight leads one to ponder why we developed the neutron bomb, a bomb that killed with radiation but left structures intact – besides the fact that we could. Who needs a city if you only have the population left for a village?
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
~Albert Einstein
M.A.D. or Mutually Assured Destruction leads one to the obvious conclusion that there’s never been a philosophy put forth but some fool should try it. This truth upon sober reflection shows M.A.D. to be an epitaph about our mental state rather than a philosophy.
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
~Omar Bradley
There cannot long be a weapon but it shall be used. And the first shot fired – knowing the human race as we do, one can hope for restraint but must expect the barrage. This being true, it’s history that at the dawn of the nuclear arms race the government set up fall-out shelters and stocked them with food or we built our own shelters in our yards. Where have the shelters gone? Where is the food stock? If there is a barrage, whoever’s left to awake to the aftermath will have a long fast…
If all the money poured into nuclear programs had been spent on education, medical research, stamping out hunger, we might have a paradise today instead of a paradox – M.A.D.
Nena- 99luft Balons
Nena – 99luftballoons(english version)
Then I’ll sing a song for you
About 99 balloons
On their way to the horizon
Perhaps you’re just thinking of me
Then I’ll sing a song for you
About 99 balloons
And that such a thing (like the war)
comes from such a thing
(the balloons)
99 balloons
On their way to the horizon
they took for UFOs from space
So a general sent
A flying squad to follow them
To raise the alarm if it was true
Yet there on the horizon were
Only 99 balloons
99 jet pilots (jet fighters)
Each one was a great warrior
Thought that they were Captain Kirk
This led to great fireworks
The neighbors didn’t get anything
And felt at once provoked
Yet on the horizon they shot
At 99 balloons
99 war ministers
Match and petrol cans
Thought that they were clever people
Already smelled greasy loot
Shouted “War” and wanted power
Man, who would have thought about that
That one day it would come to this
Because of 99 balloons
Because of 99 balloons
99 balloons
99 years of war
didn’t leave a place for winners
There are no war ministers any more
and no jet fighters either
Today I’m doing my rounds
See the world lying in ruins
Have found a balloon
Think of you and let it fly
