Preemptive Peace?
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It has been over a year now, Dr. Minch and I in his office discussing nuclear proliferation and weapons of mass destruction. Minch knows a bit of my history, five years ago it was in his class I broke the silence, you could have heard a pin drop in that room. We never always saw eye to eye, he being a strict passivist, I bordered on if there were no situations that called for armed intervention.
The question was serious, direct, and unloaded. 'Do you think there really is any hope for us, or is peace activism only delaying our inevitable fate?' I couldn't answer, I simply didnt know. I few days of contemplation, I returned with an answer.
Yes, I do think there is hope, but the peace process takes too long and there are no contingency plans to stop a nation from pressing a button. It is the state of the world we live in, it takes a moment, less than 30 minutes for a war to begin and end with our extermination, but decades to intervene on peace. Minch asked if I had any working theories or plans to have some sort of an immediate intervention to stave off out last 15 Minutes to Midnight (see the Doomsday Clock), when any working theory doesn't allow for intervention between and angry man and a button to end it. You simply cannot prevent a war without addressing the tools of it, weather arms dealers, or the fact that no matter how much we work for Peace on Earth... will always be underpinned by weapons designed to destroy it.
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