Scenarios to consider about nuclear threats

For instance, if a nuclear bomb struck Boston, an estimated two million people would die and one million would need medical attention. Can you imagine the suffering and chaos? And those in shelters 15 miles away would be crushed by collapsing buildings, or die of suffocation as fires consumed available oxygen.

Will the few surviving doctors be able to respond? The article states that the Hippocratic Oath which guided physicians for years would be obsolete. And the suffering so immense that demands for euthanasia would be on a scale never before contemplated.Even a regional nuclear war is unthinkable. This would send seven million tons of black light absorbing soot into the atmosphere causing crop failures, famine and death to two billion people.

Can nuclear war be prevented? Look at human history. All you see is a nightmare scenario of war after war. Surely the commandment, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, is the soundest edict ever written. But for 2.000 years people of all religions have slaughtered one another. I doubt Las Vegas gamblers would bet money on cessation when two unstable leaders hurl nuclear threats at each other.

What about our politicians? Consider their track record! They can’t even provide a balanced budget. They talk with a forked tongue, lying through their teeth just enough to get elected. The shocking truth is that most of us would not hire any of them to run a third-rate restaurant.

So what is needed to prevent a nuclear holocaust? I’d hope that thousands of religious leaders would preach a sermon about the danger next Sunday. I’d hope that activists who organize worldwide demonstrations for other causes, would do the same for the elimination of nuclear weapons. I’d hope that just for one week editors would put this column on every front page. But it seems hell will freeze over before all this occurs.

So what do I fear? First, that none of the above will happen and we all suffer and die horribly. I fear the HMS Boston Arm, and all other scientific achievements of HMS, and the world, will come to an end in a split second. I fear the monumental waste of years of scientific achievement and the lack of empathy to human beings. I fear the monumental loss of human ingenuity.

The Dark Ages times10!