by John Cryan
The chaonic policy papers UN II and Chaons and Nukes lay out the only path to denuclearization. It ends with making illegal the possession of uranium or any other radioactive element, and enforcing it.
We are in position to do this now, by possessing cheap enough batteries and renewable forms of power.
This paper lays out the players, and the sequence of actions that must be taken immediately. We are currently heading down the exact opposite path. Not only is a third nuclear superpower emerging right before our eyes as we stand around and do nothing, multiple mini-me’s are proliferating everywhere.
If we don’t blow ourselves up first (there are already more than enough A-bombs around to do so), and radiate the Earth irremedially (a la Andre Norton’s Star Man’s Son), everybody will end up with nukes.
Two things are necessary. First, the entire global population must bring enormous pressure on its local national leaders to get rid of nukes. This means pressure to change the UN into a form of UN II that represents all nations and peoples equally. The proposal in UN II is only the first step. Further charter revisions, dependent upon the replacement of dictatorships with democracy worldwide, are needed, in a broad and sustained continuum of change that will sweep the world. Its seeds are germinating now.
The goal is to make the UN truly democratic, and effective as a limited form of world government. It already plays a supranational governing role in limited capacities, but these need to become effective.
In the end, the UN needs to become a democracy of democracies for the purposes of solving overarching global problems which now are dividing nations, in some cases even allied democracies.
And the only way to get to a truly effective global problem-solving parliament of nations to secure our future is for the US to lead, by becoming the first non-nuclear superpower.
We owe this to the world because we invented atomic bombs, then used them. May it be the last time.
Like all other inventions, it got stolen. Thus ‘nuclear proliferation’ was ignited. At one point, there were close to 100,000 usable and discarded nuclear warheads on the planet. We can’t go back there.
MAD (mutually assured destruction) was and is always just that – madness. It is only a matter of time.
It is possible to defend against nuclear weapons, but far better to simply get rid of them once and for all. What the US has going for it is the ability to act as a superpower (for now; ultimately all large countries must severely reduce their populations to save the biosphere that keeps us alive), even without nuclear weapons. Our conventional weapons, forces and bombs are far larger, diverse, and dispersed enough (and could easily be more of each), to not only deter any foe, but defeat them as well, even if we don’t have nuclear weapons, never mind use them.
How can this be that we have such hidden strength? It goes back to Andre Norton’s book. Nuclear war renders land (and seas) uninhabitable. Its destructive effects cannot be confined. In this respect, it is exactly like biological warfare. If you use nukes, you are using them against yourself, MAD or not.
So how about it? Are we all together on doing this? Remember, we have three other things besides getting rid of nukes to do: We must quickly, severely, and voluntarily reduce our population by one order of magnitude, immediately convert from burning anything to burning nothing but hydrogen, and return at least 7/8 of our biosphere back to Nature. Getting rid of nukes is a snap compared to those.
