Time to 'arm' UN for peace and protection

EVER since the US persuaded the UK government of Mrs Thatcher to let them turn a piece of real estate called “Greenham Common” into an unsinkable US Nuclear armed aircraft carrier - so the nasty USSR would first have to annihilate Britain before turning its WAR intention to Uncle Sam - the issue of actually controlling the spread of nuclear weapons has sat on the table of military and political people around the world.

- M Donald Frampton

Happily, it has stayed on the table gathering dust because the Nuclear Powers club finally got the MAD message and de-escalated the arms race with its 25 times overkill of the world's population. Back in the cold war days we all understood what MAD meant: Mutually Assured Destruction. Nuclear weapons - if ever used - would end the arguments of I am right and you are wrong and I am good and you are bad, and most definitely return this planet to little more than a lifeless ruined hulk.