The end of non-proliferation?

[Almighty Colin]

If NK develops/tests a nuclear weapon, what nation will be next?

I would think that every nation with the weapon increases the chances of the weapon eventually being used. Insane.

Unbelievable to me is the stance that many people in the world are taking that since the current nuclear powers have such weapons that all nations should be able to have such weapons. Theis is the great principle of equality that we try to apply within our liberal democracies applied to the world as a whole. All nations are not equal though. While logical in one sense the end result sounds quite frightening. Totalitarian governments are not equal. Such nations are assaults on human dignity that exist only because of coercion. The argument has been made over and over in the past that people in such nations wish to live that way and yet for some reason these nations continue to fall and become democracies. People do not wish to be governed as such. Nuclear weapons and totalitarian states are a recipe for disaster.

Is there a solution or will more and more nations join the nuclear club until eventually they are once again used? Could it be possible that many nations - more than the current handful - will have nuclear weapons? What is the best hope in such a scenario? That all nations will so fear the weapons of other nations that wars will not occur anymore? I seriously doubt that. Someday, somewhere, someone will get desperate.

Can this end well?



Last edited by Colin at Aug 30 2003, 06:04 AM