Although today there are almost 14000 known nuclear warheads - less than the 50000+ in 1986 - the ’colossal threat is still hanging over our heads’.
“Three hundred and eighty million years passed between the appearance of visible life and the moment a butterfly learnt to fly... and then another 180 million years before nature produced a rose, with no other purpose than being beautiful. It took another four geological eras for human beings — unlike our Pithecanthropus great-grandparents — to learn to sing better than birds, and even be able to die of love. It is by no means glorious that men’s talents have ensured, in the golden age of science, that such a colossal, multi-millennial process could return to its original nothingness with the push of a button.”
A beautiful depiction by one of the greatest modern novelists
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