We are getting more advanced every day. We advance faster in some areas than others however. Our cars are pretty advanced but they still bear a resemblance to cars that were on the road over 100 years ago. They use the same type of engines and some even use similar transmissions. We have advanced faster in the field of medicine. Computers have advanced pretty fast but they are still basically the same as they were in the last twenty years. Oh they run much faster and use less electricity but the principles are the same. This may be changing soon as Quantum computers take over. There is an area that we have excelled in where we are truly using future devices and that is in killing.

Replica of Little Boy atom bomb

Yeah you heard me right, we can now kill hundreds of thousands of people at a time and maybe even millions. Nuclear weapons, when looked at from a disinterested point of view, seem fantastic on their face. When I look at a photo of a nuke, I can't help but think that this is one invention that shouldn't have come along for a few hundred more years, if ever. It seems to me that the world is not mature enough to handle such awesome power and this discovery can only lead to ultimate disaster. As if inventing nukes wasn't enough, we then went on to invent the neutron bomb. This is a nuke that only kills, it doesn't destroy any structures. Now you can kill huge amounts of people and move right in. This sort of takes some of the terror out of the bomb for the people using it, making it easer, conscious wise, to drop.

After the bomb was invented, someone said "Hey let's make one the size of a suitcase!" This idea just made the bomb portable, eliminating expensive delivery systems and allowing the common man to carry one anywhere. What a great invention, portable mass murder, just what the world needs. At least with the big stuff you had countries in control and no one really wanted to drop the damn things. Now you have terrorist groups that are more than willing to use one if they have the chance. Along came the internet where you can find anything and some people published plans on how to build a nuke. It makes you wonder how humans have lasted this long with so much stupidity out there. Computer parts have just served to increase the accuracy of the delivery systems that one of these weapons would rest on.

In the middle ages people used disease to kill their enemies. They would get a diseased body, usually one that died from the plague, and toss it over a city's walls hoping to spread the disease and kill the cities occupants. We were not satisfied with this method and decided to improve it. Who wants to have to carry bodies all around with them, they get kind of heavy. We managed to take the deadly elements of many different diseases and boil them down to extremely lethal liquids, suitable for releasing by aerosol or missile. This is an easy way to kill thousands. You just leave a package anywhere and let it go off. Boy are we advanced. Poison gases have also been developed that kill almost instantly and can cover a pretty large area.

It's a funny thing, you would have thought that we would have been satisfied with the atomic bomb, I mean, after all, how many people do you want to kill and how much damage to you want to cause. No we weren't, we went on to develop a hydrogen bomb. We kept building them bigger and bigger. The Soviets had entered the big bomb race and at one point it was said that they had 100 megaton bombs. These were country busters. One of these monsters dropped on a country the size of Great Britain would wipe it completely out. Who needs something like this?

With the advent of more accurate delivery systems the U.S. has opted for more usage of conventional explosives. This doesn't mean that other countries will do the same. Many non nuclear countries want to join the nuclear club. Some of these countries may not hesitate to use a nuke. If Kamikaze pilots could have put nukes in their planes in World War II, would they have done it? Of course they would have. Some of that Kamikaze mentality exists today, and much of it is in the middle east. I am not saying that only some countries feel this way, but some of the terrorist population certainly does.

Will we always be able to keep nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists, it doesn't look that way. One has to assume that sooner or later the terrorists will get some nuclear material. It seems to me we have to try and un invent nuclear weapons. I am talking about trying to figure a way to render the nuclear material in bombs inert. This might be able to be done by developing some sort of ray or dropping nanobots on nuclear facilities and stockpiles. We have microbes that eat their way through oil spills, why not develop a type that can eat through steel and nuclear material. It seems possible and for all I know, we might have this technology already.

Not all of our new bombs even explode. We now have bombs that weigh 1,000 pounds and are made of concrete. When dropped from a plane and used with an accurate guidance system they are capable of destroying tanks and buildings without an explosion. I think that this is a step in the right direction. Kinetic energy weapons would cut down on surrounding civilian causalities.

We live in a very dangerous world my friends and we must do something to make it safer. We are never going to be able to convince people to give up the quest to go nuclear. There will always be those that will say, hey you have the bomb so who are you to tell me not to get one? It is a hard point to defend. You can't really say that they would use it and we won't because the answer would then be, if we are not going to use it, then why do we have it? The country wanting the nukes will just say that they want them for defense. Again I have to say that we have to hope that there is research going on here to neutralize nukes.

In the long run, nuclear weapons will just cause more grief than any advantage that could have been gained from them.