And/Or…

Some method of making war EVEN MORE unprofitable than it is now.
Weapons coming off the assembly line broken and useless;
the trucks to move them broken and useless.

Unfortunately each of the above would require GodLike Powers
or Extraterrestrial Technology.

Alternately….

Some problem that puts the entire world at risk, like in the movies
“Independence Day” and “Armageddon”, would unite the world.

Just before it is destroyed.

It’s like Gandhi’s advice to the British Isles during WW2 when invasion seemed imminent: “I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions…If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourselves, man, woman, and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.”

Call it weakness on my part but I ain’t going down that way. Civil disobedience against the Nazis? That’s naive.

I’ve been on this planet for nearly 40 years; longer than some, less than many. I remember the premier on TV of the mini-series “The Day After”, one of the more horrific portrayals of nuclear war and the aftermath it leaves. I also remember reading many books and articles on these weapons, and how huge the global stockpiles were; as a child I recognized it for its madness then, the same as I recognize these smaller stockpiles for their madness now!

One would think that man, having captured the ability to vaporize cities and their inhabitants with singular weapons – one would think that he would step back, ponder, and say “wait a minute”; perhaps re-think his position, his power, his hatreds, his fears, and his ignorance. Instead, we have forgotten the power we wield (indeed, I attribute some of this to the test ban treaties). Small “tactical” weapons – instead of destroying an entire city we can destroy a few square blocks of it! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD? BETTER?!

Mankind, humanity, US – WE COULD BE AMONG THE STARS TODAY. All it would take is a realization of the futility of war, and the cooperation among all of mankind in a global effort to move our species forward, off of this planet, and out into the beyond.

We can and do continue to make great strides; there’s no denying that. There’s no denying that despite the continued threat of these weapons, we have acheived amazing discoveries, inventions, and new modes of thought and philosphy. This is what we are capable of when we are separate.

What are we capable of if we cooperate?

Small-minded individuals will be the death of us.

Gee, outlaw war! What a terrific idea! No one ever thought of that before.

ps

That 5110 US Nukes includes H Bombs and small tactical weapons equal or less than the
first Fat Boy.

Instead, to this day, we still live with war, destruction, hatred, bigotry, intolerance, fear, uncertainty, doubt, environment disasters both natural and man-made, superstitions, lies, deceit, slavery and greed. It only a matter of time before another nuclear blast rocks this world; let us pray to whatever $DEITY you may think exists to save us that it is only a singular incident and not the start of a full-fledged world war.

Our current weapons, 5000+ of them (and that is just the United States’ stockpile, according to recent reports), each have many times the power of the bomb which were dropped by us on Japan; it is crazy shocking what a singular hydrogen bomb can do. Should that third world war occur (one can almost argue it already started with 9/11; a scary proposition on its own), humanity is probably doomed for eternity, never to rise again to the level we are at today.

Our planet will be our grave.

There seems to be a small explosion at the bottom of the second page.

A ground burst would waste half of the bomb energy unless the target
was an underground bunker. An air burst distributes the destruction over a wider area.

The History channel or whatever mentioned after the U.S. tested an atomic artillery shell the
Russian generals wanted one also. The Russian Preimer felt only he should have the authority
to use nuclear weapons in a conflict, not some guy on the battlefield!

An article by Willy Ley!
Check out his video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdKmP5sVfu8