A young Harvard professor ponders the sanity of our modern life below. How do you and I wake others up to this insanity?
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Pass Matthew’s ponderings along to your family, friends, and business colleagues. Acting on this might make the difference between our lives in the future … or no life at all. We literally have the power to destroy all life on planet earth. It might take a year or two but nuclear winter would assure that plants, trees, and food sources would perish along with other life forms, including human beings.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
The Hill
August 13, 2018
In Gorky Park, with nuclear worries
Matthew Bunn
On a recent Friday night in Moscow, I went for a stroll through Gorky Park, along the Moscow River. Mothers were pushing their toddlers in strollers; couples were walking hand-in-hand; people in paddle boats were cruising around a pond. I thought of how my own daughters would enjoy this scene.
And then, like a bath of ice water down my back, it hit me: these are the people at whom my country has thousands of nuclear weapons pointed, and whose country has thousands of such weapons pointed at us. The horrifying insanity of that fact left me breathless.
The U.S. military takes care not to intentionally target mothers with strollers. U.S. nuclear weapons are aimed at military targets, from nuclear missile silos to military bases and production facilities. But many of those targets are located not far from cities, and the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons does not discriminate.
If U.S. and Russian plans for nuclear war ever were carried out, tens of millions would die — including, in all likelihood, everyone I saw in Gorky Park. Much of the human civilization built up over thousands of years would be obliterated. More than a quarter-century after the end of the Cold War, we continue to rest our security plans on threats to kill more people than Adolf Hitler ever did. [Continue Reading]