Human Wrongs Watch
‘The doctrines of nuclear deterrence and massive retaliation are still based on the Stone Age maxim: “Kill or be killed”, and the voice at the back of the hall is still right in adding “Or both!” We have to remember that the total explosive power of the nuclear weapons in the world today is 500,000 times as great as the power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is threatened by a nuclear war today is the complete breakdown of human civilization.’
ICAN video Beating the Bomb: http://icanw.org/node/5947
By John Scales Avery* – TRANSCEND – “Beyond the Fringe” was a satirical review that performed in London’s West End in the early 1960′s. In one of the sketches, the Prime Minister of England was being interviewed by a journalist, and the following exchange took place:
Journalist: “Sir, could you say something about our nation’s foreign policy?”
Prime Minister: “Our foreign policy is very simple: Kill or be killed.”
Voice at the back of the hall: “Or both! Or both!”
During the 60 years that separate us from that sharp observation, it has lost none of its relevance. The doctrines of nuclear deterrence and massive retaliation are still based on the Stone Age maxim: “Kill or be killed”, and the voice at the back of the hall is still right in adding “Or both!”
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