Nuclear Weapons: Russian TV's Misguided Opinion

On a Russian government television station, one of the talking heads berated the United States. His criticisms went on and on, and are a waste of time repeating. It is not like Russia is without corruption and its own set of problems.

But let us assume on face value that the United States is as rotten of a place as the talking head insisted.

He argued about the necessity for Russia to pursue nuclear weapons advancements due to the threats the United States allegedly poses to Russia and to other countries.

He insisted that civilization advances from the technology that comes from weapons development.

The audience clapped enthusiastically, which people are often mindlessly inclined to do even when what they are favoring means destruction.

The money wasted on arms, nuclear and conventional, if spent directly in the civilian sphere, would provide far greater benefits and outcomes than the residual benefits that comes from defense spending.

Nuclear war ends human history because it ends human existence. Nuclear weapons are the permanent, irreversible response to fleeting problems, grievances and animosities that otherwise would pass in the course of time.

The more nuclear bombs and missiles, the less chance mankind has for a future, let alone a bright one.

The best of leaders wants less, not more of the nuclear weapons demon.

It is hard to understand the complacency from all sides that accepts, even applauds, the nuclear arms race.