Evidently Pakistan decided to follow India's example. Yesterday, they tested a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead! The rocket launch by North Korea last week was supposedly disguised as carrying a satellite while in fact it was a test of ballistic missile technology.
Pakistan, North Korea and Iran are backward Third World countries. The pictures seen daily, of widespread poverty in Pakistan and North Korea make one wonder: “Whatever happened to reason and priorities?” These are countries that are still to move into the 21st century. India too has a majority of its population in Third World living conditions!
Their obsession with nuclear weapons, when the rest of the world seems willing to move away from the falsity of peace by conquest seems to make no sense. Too much of the world resources has gone into the machinery of war at the expense of human welfare.
Today is the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Twenty six years later, and Pripyat is still a ghost town. Thousands of lives were lost and thousands more altered forever.
In a news segment on NHK World there was a report of a nuclear waste site in Finland which is still under construction. It is believed that burying the waste 420 meters underground, the area will be safe. What is not known is the effect 3,000 years later!
It is a nightmare that will linger for thousands of years and thousands of generations. The people of Cincinnati still remember the secrecy and the poisoning of workers at the Fenald Nuclear facility.
How long will the nuclear nightmare linger on?
There are good uses of nuclear technology. The advances in nuclear medicine is helping to prolong the lives of cancer patients. The use of nucler technology does present an ethical dilemma.
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