Subject: There is no doubt in my mind that sooner or later the world

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There is no doubt in my mind that sooner or later the world will face a nuclear catastrophe. Either by accident or design it will happen, it is just a matter of time. What the world is playing with is "Russian Roulette" with nuclear bombs.

Statistically the odds of a nuclear holocaust at any given time might be very small, even infinitesimal. But when the consequences are so catastrophic it is pure insanity to even take an infinitesimal risk. Would you put a gun to your head and pull the trigger if the odds were 1 to 6, 1 to 100, 1 to 1,000, one to a million. Not if you're sane and if one did it a million times eventually the bullet with your name on it would come up.

Yet that is exactly what we are doing with nuclear bombs. And we have come very close to a catastrophic accident on at least several occasion that we know about, since such accidents are classified secret from the public. It took 50 years to declassify the near miss over Greensborough, N.C. Does anybody really think that the systems to prevent accidents are infallible?

On top of that we have the insanity of our leaders even contemplating nuclear war, as was done by President Truman at the end of WW2. But politicians have recommended using nuclear bombs against the Soviet Union before they developed their own nuclear bomb, during the Korean War and during the Vietnam War--those are the few times that we know about. How many Dr. Strangelove's (Andrew Marshall) are there in the Pentagon?

Not long ago John Kerry made the insane remark that the administration knew that it was risking a nuclear war with Russia over the Ukraine coup. Yet they did it anyway and who knows what the next president will do to further ignite war tensions with Russia and China. Then too there is the Pakistan-India threat, the threat of Israel to use the bomb in the ME, and solid evidence that Saudi Arabia has access to nuclear bombs.

Just a few years ago President Obama gave one of his speeches at the Brandenburg Gate in Germany and promised that he was going to work with the Russians for a total ban on nuclear bombs. The crowd cheered and the promise was forgotten. Instead Obama has authorized $1 Trillion to "upgrade and modernize" the existing arsenal--with even bigger and better bombs.

As I have often said, human intelligence is an evolutionary mistake that will soon be corrected.