I'd call this "when the violent monkeys get the bomb" to illustrate
what's coming sooner or later when we live under the law of the
jungle...

(NOTE: We don't need lions or violent monkeys that become lions. The
hope lies in the little animals. No Lion No Problem!)


When Outlaws Get The Bomb
Kim Jong Il's crude blast punctuates a scary reality: the law of the
jungle now governs the race for nuclear arms

The tremor out of the far north of the People's Democratic Republic of
Korea was unremarkable. It registered a magnitude 4.2, a light
earthquake. Its significance had to be declared by its perpetrator, the
unpredictable regime of Kim Jong Il. North Korea, one of the poorest
and most hermetic nations on earth, was claiming a successful
underground nuclear bomb test and entry into the once exclusive club of
nuclear powers as member No. 9. "More fizzle than pop," said a U.S.
intelligence source dismissively, though he conceded the blast was
likely to have been nuclear. A sniffer plane would later pick up hints
of radiation in the atmosphere. Days of diplomatic consternation ensued
at Pyongyang's announcement, and after stops and starts, the U.N.
Security Council imposed sanctions on North Korea, demanding that it
dismantle its nuclear-arms program. It also banned the sale of
conventional weaponry and luxury goods to the country. Pointing at
Washington as its nemesis, Pyongyang said any increased American
military pressure would be deemed a declaration of war.

Welcome to the bad new world. As crude as the North Korean blast was,
it punctuated a scary fact: the rules that governed the nuclear road
during the cold war and its immediate aftermath have become irrelevant,
replaced by the law of the jungle--every state, rogue or otherwise, for
itself. The risk now, says former Clinton Administration Defense
Department official Graham Allison, is the emergence of a more
dangerous nuclear age. Pyongyang's test, says Allison, threatens to set
off a "cascade" of nations seeking the ultimate weapon. "The North
Korean test blew a hole in the nonproliferation regime of Northeast
Asia," says Allison. "I think this is bad news for the country, bad
news for the region, bad news for the world."

What we have now is not a tight club of nuclear powers with
interlocking interests and an appreciation for the brutal doctrine of
"mutually assured destruction" but an unpredictable host of potential
Bomb throwers: a Stalinist Bomb out of unstable North Korea; a Shi'ite
Bomb out of Iran; a Sunni Bomb out of Pakistan; and, down the road,
possibly out of Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well; and, of course, an
al-Qaeda Bomb out of nowhere. Israel is a nuclear power already. And
Turkey may just decide it had better be too. Even Japan and South Korea
could eventually move toward the Bomb, if they feel the U.S. nuclear
umbrella begins to fray in East Asia. What are the consequences for the
U.S. and the rest of the world? Are we in an era of barely controlled
proliferation, in which countless nations must at least consider the
possibility of going nuclear? Or are those fears, in the wake of the
North Korean test, overblown? Is there still time to manage the
situation?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/a...1546342,00.html


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