The March of Folly.

[KlatooBNikto]

This was the famous phrase used by one of our best historians, Barbara Tuchman to describe events that lead inexorably to disaster during wars.In the present, I believe the foundations have been laid for the spread of nuclear weapons technology to the world at large, mainly to deter the rogue elephant the U.S. from exercising threats. The vastly different ways the U.S. responded to the situation in Iraq, which was totally disarmed and North Korea which possesses nuclear weapons and missiles capable of reaching the West coast, I am sure, have been taken to heart by many countries of the world.

With the way knowledge spreads these days, it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see another A.Q.Kahn ( the Pakistani Scientist) at work somewhere selling his wares to anyone with enough money. And, knowing that computer simulations are capable of shrinking the sizes of atomic weapons with extremely lethal forces to fit a suitcase makes them ever more deadly in urban settings.

I am not sure that this March of Folly can be stopped because what the world needs now are sane, rational men capable of bringing together people of goodwill to avoid catastrophe.They are nowhere to be seen.

[Coventina]

1. Excellent book! Highly recommended!

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