by Jim Bradley

Created on: June 20, 2008

Many years ago, I was a member of CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmamament, in the UK. I paid the subsciption fee and wore a badge with the peace symbol on it but that was the extent of my 'protesting'. I never sat down in a road and got arrested for obstructing traffic.

I do believe in Nuclear disarmament though, or at least removing the power to start armaggedon from those lunatics who presently have it!

It is, however, too late, I fear. There is nowhere to put all that highly toxic Nuclear waste that would be a result of decommisioniong Nuclear weapons. Even converting it into Nucelar energy would still result in some waste products, and we've already destroyed the world to the 'nth' degree without adding more damage. Nuclear waste can be burned, buried underground, sunk at sea; We've done all that already, but then what do we do when we run out of places to hide it?

There is also the small question of who would 'police' worldwide decommisioning? Worldwide police? Wait a minute, now I sound like a politician or one of those one wrold government fools. Forget I said that! :p

The point is that, nobody trusts anyone else and thats why we have these stupid weapons in the first place. Thats why we had them when I became a CND member and thats still why we have them now. We have them because they made this huge arsenal of weapoons and now nobody knows what to do with them. A tiger by the tail indeed!

The concept of CND is a good idea, that of global nuclear disarmament, but it is no longer a viable proposition. It could have been, back when there were only a handful of these monstrosities kicking around but now that there are thousands of them with multiple warheads, all carrying enough power to destroy the world three times over, its simply not possible. The only place left is to fire them all off into space, say at one or two a month until they are all gone. Of course, then you have the problem of the aliens thinking we're attacking them........ :)

While I and all the other CND members were protesting about these weapons, they were busy building so many of them, they knew we would never get rid of them. It became public knowledge that certain 'government agencies' were closely watching groups such as CND, claiming there was a 'communist influence' motivating us. They just couldn't grasp the concept that there were (are) decent ordinary human beings who want to live in Peace!

I trust and hope and pray that these things will never be used but if they ever are, I hope that I will survive longe enough to teach whoever pressed the button, the error of their ways........!

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