Awake Or Asleep": Reason, Not Politics, Is The Path To Nuclear War Avoidance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Only "HI" could (1) put an end to falsely promised benefits of belligerent nationalism (in today's United States, "America First")[18] and (2) move toward what French Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin calls (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955) "planetization.
57% : Israel's Nuclear Strategy (Lexington, Mass., Lexington Books, 1986).
54% : [7] See earlier, by this author, Louis René Beres, at Harvard National Security Journal, Harvard Law School: https://harvardnsj.org/2015/06/core-synergies-in-israels-strategic-planning-when-the-adversarial-whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/)
52% : As a "timely" example, jihadi adversaries of the United States and Israel, both state and sub-state, make a clear distinction between "profane time" (same as clock-time) and "sacred time."
50% : Though nothing scientific can be predicted concerning such a conflict (in logic and mathematics, probabilities are based on the determinable frequency of pertinent past events), we needn't be logicians or mathematicians to conclude that all decipherable prospects would be intolerable.[1] Realistically, over time, the accelerating fusion of belligerent nationalism with nuclear weapons will produce uniquely explosive outcomes.
42% : Faced with manifold uncertainties about Kim Jung Un's willingness to push the escalatory envelope, Washington could find itself confronted with grave choices between variously dissembling capitulations and chaotic nuclear warfighting.[13]
40% : Whatever the scientific obstacles, the optimal time to prepare for such vital US national security contingencies is now.[12] Regarding Iran, though that country remains non-nuclear after suffering defeat by Israel and the United States during June 2025, future crises with Israel and/or the United States could draw in North Korea as a nuclear proxy.
40% : This means that an Israel-Iran nuclear war could take place even while the latter remained non-nuclear.
35% : We need only recall Voltaire's biting satire in the early chapters of Candide, and Goethe's comment (oft-repeated) linking the contrived hatreds of belligerent nationalism to declining stages of human civilization.

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