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December 12 - Global nuclear war is increasingly probable, experts warnArticle: Wars And Rumors Of Wars
With the end of the Cold War, you would think that the risk of global nuclear conflagration would have been dramatically reduced -- and, for a time, it was. With the U.S. as the only remaining superpower and a collapsing Soviet Union, most experts saw the risk of atomic war as minimal. But times change, and so do geopolitical scenarios. Today, in fact, more and more experts see greater risk of nuclear war, not less, due to a proliferation of the technology and because existing nuclear stockpiles are often less secure than they need to be.
As reported by Britain's Independent newspaper recently: Urgent action is needed to minimise the risk of a nuclear war, more than 120 senior military, political and diplomatic figures from across the world have warned. Ahead of the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, which starts today, the experts wrote in a letter that the danger of such a conflict was "underestimated or insufficiently understood" by world leaders. During the Cold War, the principle of MAD -- mutually assured destruction -- was what prevented America and the U.S.S.R. from engaging in a nuclear World War III. But economically desperate rogues states like North Korea and religious extremist regimes like the one ruling Iran make smaller-scale nuclear exchanges much more possible, the experts say. Read Full Article ....
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