Andrew Bolt argues that the more we freak about nuclear weapons, the better they work, but to work best, they must exist.
Andrew Bolt argues in a column published in the Herald Sun that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize goes to an Australian-created anti-nuke group with a dream that could get us killed.
The Nobel Committee announced that it has chosen the ICAN(International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons.”
Mr Bolt says the reason is great: yes, let’s terrify people about nuclear weapons and that’s exactly why these weapons work so well at keeping us safe.
He explains that the fear has stopped the big powers from directly attacking each other for more than 60 years. They cannot risk being hit with what they believe will be a nuclear Armageddon.
He enlarges on this, saying the North Korean crisis is a clear example of how this work because the United States does not dare attack even this tiny nation because it knows dictator Kim Jong-un is just mad enough to destroy South Korea’s nearby capital with either one of his new nuclear bombs or even just a conventional bombardment.
He stresses that the fear is what keeps the peace and in fact, that’s exactly how security for the great powers has been built after centuries of warfare.
