"If you want peace, prepare for war".
“If you want peace, prepare for war”: how outrageous!
What is the alternative?
"If you want peace, prepare for peace."
And how is peace prepared?
Changing the prevailing mentality that nuclear weapons make you strong.
And maybe not?
Having nuclear weapons is impotent and stupid. Do you distrust your diplomacy that much? Don't you know that the nuclear weapon will kill your children too?
In 1945 the atomic bomb brought peace.
It brought death and suffering. “Atomic peace” is not: it leads us to the apocalypse.
We are not here.
Closer to the end than ever: ninety allegorical seconds from the end of the world.
Who says it?
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. We were more than two minutes away in 1991, when the Soviet bloc fell. But we have resumed atomic escalation: violence.
Which countries have nuclear arsenals?
Nine countries: United States, Russian Federation, China, France, Great Britain, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea.
Iran?
Also, shortly.
Putin does not use it against Ukraine...
It doesn't suit him, he wants to stay in Ukraine.
Will Israel use it?
Some Israeli politician has suggested using it in Gaza... How brainless, it is obvious that the effects would pass on to Israel!
See how I'm right? No one will dare to drop the atomic bomb.
Don't trust yourself! The risk is total. The proof: up to six times we have been close to pressing the red button.
Sorry? Six times?
Due to unfounded alarms, technological errors, confusion... we have been on the brink of the atomic debacle six times.
Name one of those times.
The Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
Other.
In 1982, Soviet General Petrov had his finger on the red button: American missiles were coming...! He didn't press it.
What happened?
He decided not to press it, it was a personal and unilateral decision.
Good for Petrov!
They fired him... and it had all been a false alarm! You can see it in the movie The Man Who Saved the World.
Tell me another occasion of danger.
A Russian submarine was ordered to fire atomic missiles. Again an isolated officer decided not to shoot.
That confirms to me that we are safe.
For how long? One day the red button will be pressed. Maybe due to a wrong automation or a criminal hack.
Do we really run that risk?
The greater cybersecurity, the greater vulnerability.
If two atomic warheads cross paths and explode, what would happen?
It would be equivalent to the suicide of humanity.
Describe it in some detail.
Each of these two warheads, of 100 kilotons each, multiplies by six the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Let's imagine that one of them falls in a city of three million inhabitants...
Let's imagine.
The explosion would kill 600,000 people. To which should be added many others injured by blast waves, heat and acute radiation syndrome.
What does the syndrome consist of?
Either they bleed to death, or their abdomen explodes, or their internal organs are damaged, or their faces fall apart, or their eyes fall out...
Holy God.
And the survivors will suffer from leukemias and other cancers, and chronic diseases, and fetal malformations...
I don't know whether or not to ask him to continue.
The Red Cross, due to the radiation, would not be able to help the victims. The hospitals would be destroyed. And there would be no water.
Follow.
If this happened in several cities, multiply the deaths and injuries by millions. And the destruction of the ozone layer. And tons of soot in the stratosphere...
Soot... with what consequences?
Sunlight would not penetrate and terrestrial temperatures would drop to around 25 degrees: it would be nuclear winter.
Brake, brake...
Few ecosystems would survive. It would be a massive ecocide. With a great extinction of species. The end of civilization! And maybe, maybe... the end of our species.
You have convinced me, Umaña: it is better to abolish nuclear weapons...
Meanwhile, if one day you see a nuclear warhead fall, my advice is... run towards it! It will be much better to die than to hide and survive on a devastated planet.
