Nuclear Winter and Peace
Thursday, October 7, 2010
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More than twenty thousand nuclear weapons in the hands of eight countries: United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom, China, Israel, India and Pakistan, several of them with sharp economic, political and religious.
The new START treaty, signed in Prague in April between the major nuclear powers, there is more than wishful thinking, in relation to the problem that threatens humanity.
The theory of "nuclear winter", developed and led to the current level by the eminent researcher and professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, Dr. Alan Robock, - modest scientific who likes to recognize the merits of their more than his own-has demonstrated its veracity.
For them the only way to avoid the use of nuclear weapons are eliminated. The American people, located in a privileged place on the planet, allowing you to enjoy higher living standards and wealth in the world despite the incredible waste of nonrenewable resources, should be most interested in information that will provide scientists . How much space devoted to this task, the mass media?
The theory of "nuclear winter" has taught us, expresses Robock, that: "If such weapons there could not be used. And right now there is no rational argument for use at all. If the use, need to be destroyed and so our only protection from accidents, errors of calculation or insane attitude. "
" ... computers running ultra models became the only lab of choice, and historical events -including the cities destroyed by fire after earthquakes and bombings in wartime, the columns of smoke from forest fires and clouds created by volcanic eruptions became the touchstones of scientific assessments. "
The proliferation of nuclear weapons - in which Israel, India and Pakistan have joined the nuclear club, and other countries, apparently aspiring to be members - forced Robock and his colleagues to review the initial research . The results of these modern studies, as detailed in a series of articles published recently, were surprising.
respect to the United States and Russia, although each is committed in April 2010 in Prague, to reduce its nuclear arsenal to about 2,000 operational weapons, the only real way to avoid global climate catastrophe is to eliminate nuclear weapons.
"... any country that currently is considering the nuclear path needs to recognize that would be endangering not only their own populations but also the rest of the world to adopt this approach. It is time the world to think once more on the dangers of nuclear weapons, and this time take the path to peace and eliminate the possibility of a global climate catastrophe induced by nuclear energy, for the first time since mid- last century. "
" ... the use of nuclear weapons in any attack against an enemy total action would be suicidal because of the cold and darkness caused by smoke anomalous from fires generated by the pump. In fact, there is evidence that the more a country possessing nuclear weapons, the less certain. "
Albert Einstein said:" The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our ways of thinking, and that is why we move aimlessly toward an unprecedented catastrophe. " Carl Sagan had said that our nuclear weapons policy was "a way where no man thought."
the end of the lecture I asked the professor Alan Robock, "How many people in the world know that data?" He said that "very few." I added: "In your country, how many?" "Just," he answered do not know. "
No doubt that was the sad reality and added:" We do not know anything with us, what we need is to know what the world. Perhaps we should look to psychologists to explain why the masses do not understand. "
" I have an answer - said the scientist, this is called denial. It is so horrible, that people do not want to think about it. It's easier to pretend does not exist. "
His words, - for nearly an hour spent at the conference, aided by graphics, data and projected photos on a screen, "were clear, precise and eloquent. Therefore I said: "What is to consciousness, which we talk so much? What is creating culture? How much discourages you, to scientists, that people do not become aware of what they are doing, how many hours you invest? "
I told him that when there was no radio, television or Internet, could not broadcast a conference like that in Cuba or in the world. Not when many people could not read or write.
We promised the teacher to disclose the information you provided on the theory of "nuclear winter", with language that Cuban children up to 8 years old can understand, which we knew only a little from our concern regarding the outbreak of a global nuclear war, which resulted in our duty to listen to his lecture on Tuesday 14 of this month.
No other time in human history bear resemblance to it. Surely, if such risks are not understood by decision makers from the heights of immense power that science and technology have placed in their hands, the next world war will last, and would pass, perhaps tens of millions of years before new intelligent beings attempt to write its history.
fate would have it, Monday 20, received the news that delayed several hours due cyclones at dawn on 21 would arrive at the Port of Havana, from Canary Islands, the cruiser "Peace Boat", the international NGO with Special Consultative Status to the UN, which organizes trips since 1983 to promote global peace, human rights, just and sustainable development and respect for the environment and the Organization, in 2009, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his global campaign to prevent war. In a letter
I led the founder and director of the "Peace Boat", Yoshioka Tatsuya, through the head of the group of visitors Nao Inoue, says: "Our organization has been working for years, recently in collaboration with countries of ALBA. [...] That clearly express a commitment to nuclear abolition, prohibition of foreign military bases and the peaceful resolution of international disputes [...] Japan, as you know, the only country to have suffered an atomic bombing, still maintains a pacifist Constitution, through Article 9, formally renounces war and prohibits the use of force international disputes.
"... interesting issue in our activism is the removal of foreign military bases, a present situation in Japan and around the world, considering that foreign bases as those in Guantanamo and Okinawa cause irreversible environmental damage and promote war Instead of world peace. "
" Peace Boat "has been organized, including this one, 70 trips around the world since 1983, with the participation of not less than 40 thousand people have visited more than 100 countries. Their motto is "Learn from past wars to Build a Future of Peace." In
20 years, the ship has visited 14 times our country, overcoming obstacles and disadvantages imposed by the United States, promotes significant campaign donations for the education and health fundamentally.
are present in numerous international forums and gatherings in solidarity with Cuba. They are friends of our country truly tested. In May 2009, the organization was awarded the Order of Solidarity awarded by the State Council of the Republic of Cuba, a proposal by the ICAP.
was my great honor to receive the invitation to meet with a representation of the visitors, and I proposed it, with the maximum possible in the Conference Center. Took the floor to Mr. Nao Inoue, and the survivor, Ms. Junko Watanabe, who was only two years old when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima city. The girl was with a little brother in the backyard of a house 18 kilometers from the spot where the bomb was released, that wiped out most of the city, instantly killing more than 100 000 people and caused serious damage to other inhabitants.
She recounted his dramatic memories when years later he was aware of the images and details of that event, which caused so much suffering to so many innocent people had nothing to do with that brutal fact. It was a deliberate act to terrorize the world with unnecessary use of a weapon of mass destruction when the Japanese Empire was already defeated. Was launched, not a military installation, but on a helpless civilian target. The images showed on that horrible crime not to express what the voice of Junko Watanabe told us about the facts. The occasion was propitious to present our views and tell our friendly Japanese visitors, advocates for the abolition of nuclear weapons, military bases and war, the effort that our country has done to avoid a nuclear conflict can end the existence of our species.
Fidel Castro Ruz
September 21, 2010
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