Is the world safe?

WE STILL LIVE IN THE SHADOW OF THE BOMB- AND YET WE GO ON IGNORING IT... WHY? That there is a danger of nuclear war is common knowledge. There are only disagreements as to how large and how acute the danger is. Nobody appears to believe that there are no risks involved at all and yet at the same time nobody seems to value his own Life and that of mankind enough to draw the conclusion that no matter how small this man-made risk might be, one should not take such a risk with the survival of mankind, no more so than one would wager the lives of ones childrein a social game of chance. The democratic "law and order" system anddespotic state socialism, both supposedly defended by nuclear weapons, have both their popular appeal but do not, objectively, justify risking nuclear war. Neither the "socialist" societies of the East nor the "free" societies of the West are worth defending because, among many other reasons, both make for nuclear war. Thus they really deserve each other and would not do each other wrong if they wiped themselves out ina holocaust. But what about all their non-consenting and yet conscripted victims?

The world has never been safe from the day it was created, so no reason to think it is safe now.