Its All About Luck Now … The End Is Near

Our nuclear peace is fragile

Coming Soon: World War III

“It is all about luck now,” writes Ron Rosenbaum, author of “How the End Begins,” subtitled, “The Road to a Nuclear World War III.”

In 2007 we came close to World War III when Israel destroyed a nuclear facility in Syria. The U.S. and Russia were soon on alert, capable of being drawn into a potential regional nuclear war. Israel has at least 200 nuclear bombs and the two superpowers have 5,000 between them.

Just one misperception or hasty overreaction and we would have begun the end of civilization as we know it.

With the acquisitions of nuclear bombs by Pakistan and India, the global nuclear scene has become fragile.

Nuclear war hawks call this extended deterrence, meaning a nuclear power uses nuclear threats to deter attacks against a nonnuclear ally.

President Barack Obama received the Nobel Prize for his “vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.” But, according to Rosenbaum, he “is up against an entrenched nuclear establishment that has its own self-preservationist agenda.”

The book is dedicated to Major Harold I. Hering (ret.), who was cashiered out of service. Serving as a missile crewman in 1973, he had the audacity to ask: “How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?”
 
Keep your fingers crossed.