From: New Voice of Ukraine 🇺🇦
There have been few political positions I have believed in so vociferously as nuclear non-proliferation.
As a consequence of a youth spent reading primarily history books (as a way to understand the present I had found myself in), I had developed what I considered to be a very healthy fear of nuclear war, or nuclear weapons use in general. My favorite history book at the time, a tome entitled The Illustrated History of the Twentieth Century, delved quite deeply into the events surrounding the development, use, and threatened use, of nuclear weapons.
The result was that my fear of nuclear weapons extended to even the childish jokes percolating through popular consciousness during the early years of the Iraq War. This drove quite a bit of my further political formation. Non-proliferation was an unalloyed good, while nuclear weapons programs were giveaways to military contractors and a salve for the insecure egos of elected politicians—or so I thought.
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One response to “1/12/2025 — How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb — opinion”
I think that war and peace are both inevitable aspects of human existence. War often arises because people desire resources, power, or land, leading to conflicts when these desires clash. Peace, on the other hand, becomes a possibility when populations stabilize or decline, reducing the pressure on resources and diminishing the reasons for conflict.
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