There is no doubt the various ruling classes have developed dangerous sets of weapons since the ancient times, the better to threaten their own and others

The earliest myths of the Greeks involved a lot of war stories, a great deal of weapon invention making and use

It is plausible to observe/conclude that from then to now technological developments are the result of two elements – the desire of the ruling class to maintain power at the cost of war, the constant development of modern science and associated technology in line with industrial economy to produce ever more powerful and advanced machines in every domain

All these sciences and technologies are dual use and purpose – the same processes and attempts to gain and exercise control over nature and over the human

Your observation that nuclear bombs are a large scale administration and industry is of course true, but this is merely the inevitable cog in the much larger machine, the industrial economy, from which it is inseperable; to modify the smaller can only be achieved by a complete overhaul, or the destruction, of the larger

Meanwhile, I leave to the RF and China specialists, scientists or government, the intimate and particular understanding of how this specific nuclear administration functions – and to their politicians to find a balance between their own and the nuclear weapons of others: a development of the Cold War escalation doctrine

It is doubtful with so unstable a basic material and technology that a stable solution can be found, given the implication of all these countries in parallel forms of industrial economies which are doomed to non stop fission levels of expansion and competition

There are various other threats to human survival produced by large scale capitalism – industrial agriculture, the general degradation of health due to prolonged high density large scale urban living and loss of physical activity, last but not least the failure to reproduce at the level required to ensure survival (to which if you like could be added the climate problem)

In any case I find these three listed above (I’m un enthusiastic about climate arguments) of much greater significance, all the more for being very un noticed and under discussed

I would say that – in light of these problems – the nuclear one is not only yesterday’s child, more significantly it is a kind of game that the ruling classes play with eachother, tits for tats, endless bureautalk, protocols, propositions, conferences, position papers, think tanks and treaties – all designed to cower the masses (Reds under the beds style) and to distract attention from governments failure to address the real problems of societies

These issues are more pertinent to Africa – I am obliged to take note of my habitat before looking into others’ – although I have spent time in the US, I have spent more time scratching my head in amazement that a whole place can be quite so misguided, not something I have seen in Russia, or India, for example, and certainly not here

I do not say these ruling classes are ‘mad’, just concerned solely with their profitable survival at the expense of the rest – I do say that this unique interest renders them ignorant and foolish of the remaining adequate ways and means