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Bad News and Good News
We live in a dangerous time
in a dangerous world. One perilous century is drawing to a close. Considering recent
trends, it appears that another equally menacing one is about to begin.
Just as the world seemed to be settling into an uneasy calm after the collapse of
the former Soviet superpower, world leaders shook off their complacency as a result
of India's recent successful test of nuclear weapons.
They were further shocked when Pakistan followed suit with its own nuclear tests
and announcement that it, too, had the bomb and wouldn't hesitate to use it if threatened
by neighboring India.
Some militant Muslims in other countries rejoiced at the news that Pakistan, a largely
Muslim nation, had armed itself with nuclear weapons. At last, they said, there was
an "Islamic bomb." Now, they claimed, the mostly Muslim Arab countries could soon
again be a match for upstart Israel, long thought to have its own nuclear arsenal.
Around the same time that the news hit from India and Pakistan, a stream of other
disturbing facts came to light. United Nations inspectors reported that traces of
highly lethal nerve gas had been found on Iraqi missile fragments, showing that the
Iraqis apparently have such weapons armed and ready for use when conflict again breaks
out in the Middle East. Meanwhile the cat-and-mouse inspection game continues in
the hunt for further evidence of Iraq's biological- and nuclear-weapons programs.
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