In the whole vast human saga, there has only been one long and protracted period of relative peace among the major powers of the dominant civilizations. It was a period that came, not surprisingly, after some of the bleakest and bloodiest chapters in our history. We're living in that period. Look to history. Think Robespierre and Danton.
T hink Aryan purity.
Think ethnic cleansing. Well, it's true that almost every technological advance has fostered an improvement in our ability to kill one another. But take that reasoning to its extreme, acknowledge that we have at last perfected that ability, that we've enabled ourselves to wipe out whole nations by remote control, and the truth pours forth. One thing, and one thing only, has stabilized the world for the past half century, and that thing is a big metal hull containing a device that, when triggered, can reduce an entire city to smoldering ruin. That thing is the bomb.