Albert Einstein understood the perils of nuclear war and the extinction of life on earth, which has already started with the radioactive contamination resulting from depleted uranium. " I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
K. Smith
Footnotes:
[1] Recent developments have turned the Middle East into the center of international attention. Iran, as the Persian Gulf region's only non-Arab nation, Israel, as the world's sole Jewish state, and a host of fragile Arab countries, who are being immersed in the waves of the West's economic turmoil, find their destiny intertwined, with each party trying to surmount the other. All this makes for an interesting, yet worrying, rivalry in the Middle East.
August 5, Google Alert - Nuclear
AP Exclusive: Iran defiant in nuclear documents
Nuclear powers remember Hiroshima, The Press Association
UK PM Makes Policy Slip, Says Iran Has Nuclear Weapon, Wall Street Journal
Senate Committee Delays Action on New START Treaty, Voice of America
Poll: Arab majority believes nuclear Iran helps Mideast, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
[2] Who's Telling the Truth About Iran's Nuclear Program? by Muhammad Sahimi
Since February 2003, Iran's nuclear program has undergone what the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) itself admits to be the most intrusive inspection in its entire history. After thousands of hours of inspections by some of the most experienced IAEA experts, the Agency has verified time and again that (1) there is no evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, and (2) all the declared nuclear materials have been accounted for; there has been no diversion of such materials to non-peaceful purposes. Iran has a clean bill of health, as far as its nuclear program is concerned.
July 7, 2008 04:24 AM H. Con. Res. 362 - through efforts, Iran seeks to establish regional hegemony, threatens longstanding friends of the United States in the Middle East, and endangers American national security interests.
Regional hegemony is not achieved with Iranian army that has been designed solely to defend Iran, and an air force that belongs in museums.
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