A Greater Nuclear Threat than Iran?

I once had a coworker who grew up during the Cold War and served aboard the USS Kittyhawk and USS Constellation.   He told me that as a young man, with all the threat of a nuclear holocaust, he would lie awake at night wondering if at any moment, the world would come to a fiery, radioactive end.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, we seem to have a less sensationalized view of the end of the world by nuclear weapons. Instead, we’ve shifted our focus to economics, biological disasters, terrorism, and yes, even a zombie apocalypse!  The entire discussion of nuclear weapons seems mostly academic now and nothing more than a political leverage point (at least as far as the media is concerned.)

But while the spotlight continues to fall upon Iran with concerns for the development of nuclear weapons, another concern seems to go unnoticed by most.  The potential effect of the already existing nuclear warheads in the world.  In this CNN article by Ira Heffland, he states:

The international community should continue to take practical steps to prevent additional countries from acquiring nuclear weapons. But this effort to prevent proliferation must be matched by real progress to eliminate the far greater danger posed by the vast arsenals that already exist.

 

While I’m not a gloom and doom person, because I know my ultimate future is secure in Christ, I do find it interesting that I too have neglected to consider the continued threat of nuclear proliferation.  Check out the CNN Article and let me know your thoughts.

 

What’s your big “end of the world” fear?  Please post your answers so we can discuss them in the comments section below.

Joshua Graham is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, winner of the International Book Award and Forward National Literature Award. His thrillers include DARKROOM, LATENT IMAGE and BEYOND JUSTICE, and TERMINUS. Graham's works have been characterized as thought-provoking page-turners.

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