Founder & President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI)
When Einstein said "The splitting of the atom changed everything save man's mode of thinking, thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe", he meant that war was fundamentally obsolete. That man must stop fighting; because if he continues indulging in the killing instinct, eventually nuclear weapons will be used and their use could signal the end of life on earth.
Since he made that statement, nothing has changed, man indulges in fighting, huge national treasuries are allocated to killing, war is glorified and the world moves ever closer to the end.
Russia and the US still maintain thousands of weapons on hair-trigger alert ready to be launched with a press of a button, while the politicians of the world maintain a practiced denial and psychic numbing towards this ever-present reality.
I see no politicians with vision and sagacity who are willing to confront the extraordinary reality
- that we all live under the twisting nuclear sword of Damocles every second of every day. If the human race and indeed the 30 million other species who cohabit this planet with us are to survive, a radical change must take place in the psyches of the world leaders and their public.
Will this happen? At the moment I see no objective evidence of such a change.
Prognostically our present path will lead us to annihilation possibly within 20 years but maybe within 10 years. There is no time to waste. Wise leaders must arise who will lead us from the brink of nuclear suicide and instigate the dynamics necessary to stop the blind and unconscious rush to mutually assured destruction. |