Nuclear Neighbors

Any of you reading the news these past few weeks would have seen the emergence of a new threat to the free world. Iran has re-instituted its nuclear research and development program, and said “Up yours” to the rest of the world. Ok, so not everybody, just the countries that already have nuclear weapon capabilities and don’t want everyone else to share in the joy of being able to destroy the world at the push of a button.

Personally, I think that nukes are a bad idea and we would be better off without The Bomb. Now nuclear power, that’s a different story. Well maybe.

I wonder if this action is going to be the case for every country that starts its own nuclear development program. Surely everyone is going to want to take a crack at developing a nuke when their country has a bit of spare change to foot the bill for the research. The biggest question really is this, how does one stop this problem once and for all? How do you get people to unlearn what they have learned? Nuclear power is an efficient and cost effective source of power which could help a lot of impoverished nations supply much needed amenities to their populations, yet with a little work and a lot cash can become the deadliest force yet built by man. Quite the conundrum.

Aside from all that, I can’t help thinking how this was the way the Iraq war started. Maybe someone at the CIA screwed up and spelt Iran wrong. That would explain all the sheepish faces when it was announced that there was no evidence of nuclear weapons development in Iraq… 400,000 troops in Iraq saying ‘Where are the nukes?’; one Special Agent in Iran saying ‘Where are the troops?’. It could be that or possibly a game of ‘Tag Team Enemy of the World’.