Thetis and Nuclear Madness by David Steen

TICA’s board meeting agenda on October 7, 2025 was too full to hear me request its support for the United Nations campaign to ban all nuclear weapons. 

Here it is: Imagine being locked in a house with a person who might kill you if you show weakness or drop your guard. Each of you has a can of gas. To ignite one in an attack or defense will incinerate you both. Our house is our world. Our gas is nuclear weapons. The risk it will destroy us increases by the day. To believe nuclear annihilation can’t happen -- that no nation is crazy enough to light the match -- or even that nuclear war can be contained and prove victorious for one side are dangerous delusions. Objective observers of history and psychology know that acts of madness and mistakes are inevitable. With nuclear weapons, the horrific consequences defy imagination. 

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