Thermonuclear War

Unfortunately this is inevitable.

After the atom was first split for energy in 1938, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that atomic power could be a major source of energy in the very near future, adding:

"This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable — though much less certain — that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory."

At around 05.30 am on July 16th 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhattan Project, watching the first atomic blast at Alamogordo (incidentally that first bomb they exploded there was code-named "Trinity") in New Mexico is reputed to have said, "I have become death, destroyer of worlds," misquoting the Bhagavad Gita. Interesting that he chose to quote and followed to some extent a Hindu text.

He also said that the physicists who built the atomic bomb had “known sin”; that he himself had blood on his hands. He warned against a postwar nuclear arms race, advocated the international control of atomic weaponry, and, questioned the development of the hydrogen bomb, partly because such a weapon “carries much further than the atomic bomb itself the policy of exterminating civilian populations.”

Scientists make bombs and religious people throw them at eachother - that one is all mine, Google hits are therefore zero :-)

Cry for the children.

Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek is set in a Universe after the nuclear winter on Earth. I do hope that we make it there.

PS. Neil Young has just recorded an anti-war protest album: On the title track, he sings: "In the mosques and the doors of the old museum, I take a holy vow, to never kill again, try to remember peace."