The New Nuclear Age
During my high school years in the early 1980s,
I had the occasional nightmare about nuclear war.
The Cold War was in its advanced stages. Movies and
TV shows like "War Games" and "The Day After"
explored the specter of nuclear holocaust. It
wasn't uncommon to see bumper stickers like "One
nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day."
With glasnost, the fall of communism and the
unification of Europe, it seemed that world peace
was finally within reach. Or not. As the world got
smaller, it also became easier for tyrants and
terrorists to get their hands on nuclear
material.
I never would have thought that we'd be facing
the renewed danger of nuclear war in the
twenty-first century. Yet on Fox News last night, I
saw a commentator discuss the option of arming
Japan with nukes as a deterrent to North Korea and
an incentive to get China involved in controlling
the escalating nuclear tension on the Korean
Peninsula.
I have no brilliant insight on how to deal with
a nuclear-happy North Korean Communist dictator,
but the situation makes me nervous. With a
post-9/11 world already walking on eggshells,
afraid of the next big terrorist attack and a
possible war in the Middle East, the last thing we
need is nuclear sabre-rattling in Asia. So much for
an optimistic view of the twenty-first century.
©2003 Michael
Strickland ALL RIGHTS
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