A World Without Nuclear Weapons

It's five minutes to midnight.

It's been that way since 2007, when the minute hand was advanced by two minutes. I was in Iraq, so that's my excuse for being late to this information.

The Nobel Peace prize award once again brings nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament into the the public consciousness - where it will sit for five minutes, cause some consternation, and then be dumped for John and Kate +8 late breaking news.
There are currently 9 countries in the world that possess or are believed to posses nuclear strike capabilities, in no particular order: Russia, The US, France, Pakistan, India, UK, China, North Korea, and maybe Israel. I can see why some Hawks yearn for the good old days.

Unfortunately, the world we live in is no closer to being rid of nuclear weapons than the world of the 1950s.

How do you unlearn something? How do you unknow the secrets of the universe? A world without nuclear weapons is a fast fading dream, mankind may just have to live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud, as we have been as a species for over fifty years. In the timeline of our history, that isn't very long - and chances are we have some way yet to go...

But I think that if you stretch the timeline out long enough, destruction is assured.