I Hope The Russians Love Their Children Too

[freshwest]

Uploaded on Dec 6, 2009

Scenes from "Trinity and Beyond - The Atomic Bomb Movie" mixed to the song "Russians" by Sting.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.[1]

Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970. On 11 May 1995, the Treaty was extended indefinitely. More countries have adhered to the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the Treaty's significance.[1]

A total of 190 states have joined the Treaty, though North Korea, which acceded to the NPT in 1985 but never came into compliance, announced its withdrawal in 2003.[2]

Four UN member states have never joined the NPT: India, Israel, Pakistan and South Sudan.

The treaty recognizes five states as nuclear-weapon states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council).

Four other states are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan and North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its nuclear weapons program...

More at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty

Most of the world appears to have embraced Sting's POV.

[yuiyoshida]

1. Once was enough

[Plucketeer]

2. Isn't THAT the truth?

And to think that what's a few buttons away today, boggles the mind. There'll be no "winners" if we let these horrible birds fly again.

[sheshe2]

3. KnR

and bookmarking to watch!

Well done freshwest.

[freshwest]

4. Beware, the Hiroshima footage is hard to view, Sweets.

I was taught about the horrific effects in my single digit years in elementary school.

There are reasons the UN and governments work daily to control them and the other deadly weapons.

[paleotn]

5. Sobering. Thanks for posting .....

A look back at the bad ole days for those around during the '62 Cuban Missile crises, Able Archer in '83 and everything else in between. And for those who weren't, a tutorial on how frightening those days truly were. Many of us simply believed we'd never live to old age, since nuclear war was inevitable. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed, but the fucking evil things are still around, just not talked about daily over the dinner table via the evening news. We may be in even more danger today than during the cold war, since the proliferation of relatively small numbers of low yield weapons reduces the concept of MAD and allows some to believe they could actually win a nuclear war. I think the only thing that allowed the human race to survive those days was the knowledge on all sides that use of nuclear weapons was an act of suicide.