What chance is there really of a world free of nuclear weapons, as President Obama has described it? As much as we might like the idea, Bartosz Weglarczyk of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza warns that the world has yet to prepare itself for the more likely scenario: sooner or later, someone is going to detonate one.
For Gazeta Wyborcza, Bartosz Weglarczyk writes in part:
It’s pity that Barack Obama didn’t become president of the United States several decades ago. Because today, his idea of a world free of nuclear weapons is unrealistic. Worse still, it’s likely that nuclear weapons will one day be used again.
The best time to have stopped the nuclear arms race would have been the years just after World War II, following the horror that was the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since the 1970s, there has been no hope for a world without The Bomb. Today it’s a dream. A beautiful dream, but still just a dream
Realistically, however, the world should prepare for a more likely scenario: someone, somewhere, unwittingly or on purpose, will use a nuclear weapon … the world will need an effective rescue system – both literally and politically, since each country attacked by weapons of mass destruction tends to see maximum destructive retaliation as a natural and almost automatic response. The international community should be prepared for this eventuality and be ready to implement such a system to prevent an escalation that could endanger the entire planet.
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