Inexplicably reversing course, it dashed away at full throttle to avoid the effects of the nuclear Hell it had just unleashed on the city below. It was the first time human beings had ever done anything that nasty to other human beings. On the plus side, nuclear weapons have prevented the outbreak of another war like the one they ended. Such men tend to view the loss of their own lives as unacceptable. Nothing lasts forever.
War is zero-sum economics at work on an international level.
Indeed, a glance at the headlines reveals that Ares , god of war in Greek mythology, called Mars by the Romans, is at large on planet earth. We contemplate famine-driven wars and modern crusades accompanied by such environmental damage that the future of biological diversity, if not life on this planet, is in question. Environmental terrorism has become a fact of existence. Fueled by religious intolerance and ignited by a pathological lust for power, Middle Eastern wars have left miles of beach paved with oil oxidizing in the heat. In some places, not even algae will grow.