The nuclear threat.

So, a quick recap. Most 1st world countries have nuclear weapons. Many admit to this whilst others probably just pretend not to have any. Now North Korea are getting in on the act. It would therefore seem that most of the major powers and some of the not-so-major powers are fully armed with nuclear weapons. During the Cold War the USSR and the USA had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the earth more than 40 times over. Granted, tensions between Russia and the USA have fallen, there still must be, worldwide, enough nuclear bombs to destroy the planet several times over.

The issue with this is that most people think that this is okay. People argue that everyone having nuclear weapons creates a nuclear deterrent and whilst I don't want to scare people, but what if something went wrong? The First World War, though obviously not nuclear, came to many people as a bit of a surprise. Simplified; two opposing sides amassed armies so large that neither would attack the other. Now this quite clearly didn't happen. I'm not for one minute suggesting that the assassination of an Archduke is going to start a nuclear World War III, but it only takes one mad man with his finger on the button to potentially kill us all.

All of this said, I really am not trying to scare people. If there is to be a nuclear war then there is very little us average people/low quality blog writers can do, except let our eyeballs melt. The point I am trying to make is that our lives could be cut short at any time, so don't waste your life shopping or on Facebook or Twitter, go out and live. Even if that means ignoring this blog for ever more, just go out and have some fun, enjoy life with the people you love.