"The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'." - J. R. R. Tolkien.
"We must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril — to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire." - Elrond, The Lord of The Rings.
In a world where almost any state can lay claim to the almighty powers of the ring of death--nuclear weapons--the ability to inflict total pain on another nation and force submission no longer lies solely in the hands of the economically dominant and technologically advanced nations. The lords of death during the Cold War were America and Russia. Now it is a very long list that includes Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, India, America, China, Russia, England, France, and soon, Iran.
The dispersion of nuclear weapons has caused technological leveling among several nations, not just the hegemonic powers. In this new age North Korea can stick its finger in Uncle Sam's eye because it has the bomb. Even if you are a great power like the U.S. or China you can't force a nation with a nuclear bomb to submit its will to your designs. When a nation has the equivalent of a suicide bomb around its chest and threatens to blow itself up along with you if you disrespect its sovereignty then you move away, stop your aggression, and go home.
Nuclear power is a check against imperial aggression which is why the elites of the U.S., Europe and Israel hate the thought of North Korea and Iran having a nuclear bomb. The game of empire can't be fought on an equal playing field because that would spoil all the fun. The whole point of war is that one side wins and gets to enjoy its newfound wealth afterwards.
So, how do you play the game of war in this new age if you are a blood-sucking superpower like the United States? You pick on little nations like Iraq and Libya, and guerilla outfits like the Taliban who don't have the ultimate weapon to defend themselves against foreign aggression. Cowardly? Yes. But cowardice pays.
When the Bush administration was preparing to strike Iraq in October 2002 the first thing that North Korea did was build a nuclear bomb. And that was the right thing to do. It ensured North Korea's survival and security. Iran is also trying to get a nuclear bomb to guarantee its security from U.S.-Israeli aggression. Building a nuclear bomb is a rational state response by Iran to an insane regional reality that has been created by the psychopathic madmen who control the U.S. empire and Israel.
But the Mullahs are not building a bomb yet. Jason Ditz reported at Antiwar.com back in January that "the Obama Administration confirmed, two years ago, that Iran had the capability to produce nuclear weapons, and they simply didn’t. All of the administration’s rhetoric since March 2009 falls apart in the face of this one, unavoidable fact, that despite the program’s ability to theoretically produce nuclear arms, it has continued to exclusively operate for civilian purposes."
The Mullahs care what the outside world thinks of them. They think they are playing it safe by not actively building the bomb, so they can say later to the Islamic world, "The Zionists and the Great Satan attacked us to get rid of our nuclear program, but we didn't have one as the whole world knew. Now, however, we will build the bomb to defend our nation and our rights." This is a good move on the part of the Mullahs because Iran must defend itself as the victim in the war if it has any chance of beating Israel and the United States. You can't beat the devil at his own game. The aggressive side will lose the war because the people of the Middle East will be against it and wish death upon it.
But why make war at all? Jonathan Schell, author of 'The Fate of the Earth,' and 'The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger,' says that the traditional understanding of war as the continuation of politics by other means (the Clausewitz definition) can no longer be defended and that there is no logic to modern warfare when a small nation like North Korea can compete with great powers on the international stage.
Schell said in an interview with Mark Molaro in 2007 that the nuclear age is reaching maturity:
I think the nuclear age is really coming into its own for the first time, it's reaching its prime, so to speak. Back in 1945 the nuclear scientists knew and said that this technology was destined like all technologies, like a television set or anything, to be available to all and sundry. Eventually, every nation would be able to do it, and even groups that were not nations. But it's a difficult technology so its taken seven decades for us to reach that point. So it was a great mistake to identify nuclear danger with the cold war. I like to say that in that period this danger took on a two-power disguise, but that was really not the inner nature of the thing. The inner nature of the thing was to becoming at you from all points of the compass because you simply cannot confine the spread of scientific knowledge and technical knowledge. So that's where we are now. Only now, really, for the first time in the nuclear age, do we face it in its true and destined form. (00:00-02:00 in this video).
If a nation wishes to protect itself from a hostile foreign power it will do everything in its power to do so, including using a nuclear bomb. This fact means that the age of mass war is coming to an end. National warfare means global suicide. That is why I hate the leaders of Israel, the United States, and Iran. They are fucking with my life and your life by sowing chaos in the Middle East which may lead to the use of nuclear weapons. We are all held hostage by the demonic monsters of war who work in America's military-industrial-congressional complex and its Israeli counterpart. Our collective security is threatened by these war profiteers and crazy freaks.
The bankster-owned American empire has taken the scorched-earth approach to resolving the nuclear proliferation crisis rather than engage in diplomacy and establish global peace conferences. 9/11 served as a world myth for a world empire, legitimizing naked aggression and criminal invasions of innocent countries.
The 9/11 lie also enabled the creation of a massive global security and surveillance regime that stretches from North America and Europe to India and Asia. Governments around the world have made false promises to defend their populations against the phantom that is international terrorism, which is a creature of the U.S.-Israeli-British security/military apparatus.
If not for 9/11, the U.S. evil empire would not have a large military foothold in the Middle East to achieve its objectives of taking out Pakistan's nukes and preventing Iran from joining the club. But the empire's plans are backfiring because aggression always fails in the end. Aggression may work for a while, as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq once the wars started, but a long lasting victory is not possible without political cooperation and peaceful intentions.
Thus far, American, British, and Israeli leaders have used deception, propaganda, and aggression to achieve their criminal goals. They must be forced from below to radically change their mentality and objectives, or there might not be a planet to impose a peace upon.
We as global citizens have to tell our crazy leaders in government to destroy nuclear weapons once and for all, to throw the ring of death down into mount doom. If they ignore our democratic instructions, which they have done over and over again on other issues, then we have every right to set loose William Blake's "tigers of wrath," upon these so-called leaders to tear their limbs apart.
