Apocalypse Rising!

SEE HERE Apocalypse is one of those cautionary words which has eschatological significance.  The one apocalyptic capability in the world without question is all out nuclear war.  MAD was the strategy that prevailed during the "cold war" — Mutual Assured Destruction.  That is hardly a sane strategy because it commits the players to destruction.  However only if good will prevails can one trust the holder of thousands of nuclear weapons not to use them as a lever to conquer the world.  We can hardly be expected to trust adversaries that don't recognize any morality but power.  We too are becoming less trustworthy as we lose our once strong Judeo-Christian grounding in morality.  Unilateral disarmament is a recipe for subjugation none the less.   Weapons with the awesome devastational power of nuclear fission and fusion can hardly be deterred in any other way than the possibility of reciprocity.  It behooves us to maintain our readiness.  The alternative is surrender to those less scrupulous that we.