There will be a nuclear war inside two generations.

"What we are witnessing is simple: the gangsters are competing for the best firepower to keep other gangsters off their turf. Once the playing field is equal, these weapons of mass destruction will continue to collect more dust as they have since more than one mafia acquired them..." Yes, I would concur that the true power of nations is essentially in the hands of what are gangsters, a 'mafia' if you will. This may not be how they are presented to us in the media, they are merely presented to us as 'successful world leaders', but then if Al Capone owned the narrative, how would Al Capone media have portrayed Al Capone? As a gangster and thug? Or as an entrepreneur and legitimate businessman? Obviously the latter. However, the fact that we now agree that the true power lies in the hands of what are effectively gangsters, I can only feel this further lends itself to the idea that sooner or later their thirst for war, chaos, destruction and simply their natural psychopathy is going to lead to a nuclear war. Even if, as you say, other nations can now retaliate in kind, I still think there are those with the will and the nature to plunge us into a nuclear war. It may not even be a nuclear enabled nation that is hit. It may be more likely that one that is enabled would strike one that is not. For example, do we honestly consider Israel stable and tempered enough not to fire one of those war heads at Tehran in the next few decades? We can currently see a very volatile set of conditions in Syria. There are Russian fighters there, there are now apparently US troops on the ground, you have what are being called ISIL present, you have Assad's own forces, you've got Kurds there fighting, the Chinese have a presence and, of course, Israel are next door. All it would take would be for the usually trigger happy Israel to take down a Russian aircraft and that could very easily escalate. Even if a WW3 were not the actual intent, with the present toxic mix that we see, it's something that could very easily evolve out of this mix. A WW3 most surely would not start out nuclear. But it would end nuclear. Also some information from the past to consider; Top Secret Documents Reveal A NATO Training Exercise Nearly Started A Nuclear Apocalypse With Russia A recently declassified document has revealed that in 1983, the United States and Russia were almost plunged into nuclear war and here's the real kicker: It would have been completely by accident. The New York Times has, for the first time, shed light on these documents which reveal that in '83 NATO was planning a massive nuclear-based military exercise. Unfortunately for the world, the USSR didn't get that memo and so when it saw that most of the western world's military were moving into high-alert it assumed that the training exercise was actually a cover for a genuine attack. It is thought that the exercise could have, at some stages, brought the two countries closer to war than even the famous Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk... 6 Tiny Mistakes That Almost Ended the World A Blown Fuse Nearly Triggers Armageddon A 50-Cent Computer Chip Mistakenly Announces Nuclear War NORAD Mistakenly Informs America That the World Is Ending A Fictional War Scenario Is Confused With Horrible Reality Russia Confuses a Science Experiment With World War III America Messes Up Repeatedly During the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.cracked.com...