Drifting Towards an Unparalleled Catastrophe..........
When Einstein issued the statement above in 1948 there was only one country with nuclear weapons the US. Today there are nine countries with advanced nuclear weapons. Today there are also twenty four countries that have biological, chemical and radiological Weapons of Mass Destruction.
In 1948 there were no terrorist organizations wreaking havoc all over the world. Russia, China and the US have developed Hypersonic Weapons of Mass Destruction. These weapons travel at 8 times the speed of sound and cannot be detected. There are also Electro-Magnetic Pulse Weapons and weaponized drones in use now!
Since 1948 many conflicts have occurred and are still raging. There are numerous other global challenges such as climate warming and cyber-warfare. Another factor is having the bulk of humanity functioning daily in denial. In the last 100 years denial and inaction was present in many tragic circumstances. Ex. The Holocaust and German aggression, 911, Pearl Harbor, etc.
The point to this is that Einstein’s prediction was quite right. We are most definitely drifting towards an unparalleled catastrophe. Millions of people mostly outside of governments function daily in deep denial of these expanding dangers.
The Global Bottom Line
The fact is that governmenrt officials in continual off and on conflict for decades such as India and Pakistan or North Korea and South Korea or Israel and the Palestinians.
They generally do not recognize with accuracy what it will take to end their conflict. Some may say that when a conflict is ended that they found the answer. Since the conflicts listed above demonstrate repeated off and on conflicts for many years proves they have no serious clarity.
Without sufficent clarity, highly effective relating and communicating, counter-productive or dangerous interactions persist with massive loss of lives and security.
Officials who will participate in ontology-based transformational programs that we recommend will be able to prevent or resolve most serious international challenges.
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Barbara Slavin is an Iran expert. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center Barbara Slavin is a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington and a lecturer in international affairs at George Washington University. Prior to joining Stimson, she founded and directed the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council and led a bi-partisan task force on Iran.
The author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation (2007), she is a regular commentator on US foreign policy and Iran on NPR, PBS and C-Span. A career journalist, Slavin served as a columnist for Al-Monitor; assistant managing editor for world and national security at the Washington Times; senior diplomatic reporter for USA Today; Cairo and Beijing correspondent for The Economist and as an editor at the New York Times Week in Review. She covered such key foreign policy issues as the US-led ‘war on terrorism,’ policy toward ‘rogue’ states, the Iran-Iraq war and the Arab-Israeli conflict. She has traveled to Iran nine times. Slavin also served as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she wrote Bitter Friends, and as a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace, where she researched and wrote the report, Mullahs, Money and Militias: How Iran Exerts Its Influence in the Middle East.
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