I'm not scared of much, but...

Currently the world is spending significant time, money and energy to make sure that countries like Iran and South Korea do not make their own nuclear weapons. Although this is a great thing to focus on, why is that we can’t convince/bribe Russia to either destroy of relocate their nuclear weapons. It would much much easier to steal a bomb than to build one. Give Russia a choice; pay them to disable the weapons or offer to build them state of the art weapons depots where they can guard them more easily. Russia can’t afford to guard the weapons and I don’t see why they would be against this. And if the smaller former Soviet countries don’t agree to such an offer, than we should destroy their facilities by force. An unguarded nuclear missile depot in Kazakhstan is a much greater threat to my life that Saddam Hussein ever was. And the US should lead by example, we should say that we will reduce our nuclear capabilities so that we can only kill every person on earth three times. Than again, maybe our President would say that is a sign of weakness.

Albert Einstein speaking on nuclear weapons....
- “If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
- “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Hiroshima Bomb - 1945 – 12 Kilotons
2nd Generation Bomb – 1952 – 10,400 Kilotons
3rd Generation Bomb – 1961 – 58,000 Kilotons


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