Disarmament, not low-yield nukes
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Jan 31, 2019
4 minutes
Seven-plus decades ago, as humanity was ensnarled in a monstrous world war, its instinct to win -- to dominate others above all else -- achieved ultimate manifestation: the capacity to annihilate all life on Planet Earth.
Nuclear weapons are, you might say, the logical outcome of the 10,000-year journey of civilization: "God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.'"
And so we have. And now we're stuck with ourselves, as are all other forms of life.
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