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Mediaburn DVD Recommendation. Waving the Nuclear Sword. George Monbiot writes: In nuclear politics, every action is justified by the response it provokes. The US explains its missile defence programme by claiming that other states are developing new weapons systems, which one day it might need to shoot down. In response, Russia has activated a new weapons system, the Topol-M, designed to "penetrate US anti-missile defences". Israel, citing the threat from Iran, insists on retaining its nuclear missiles. Threatened by them (and prompted, among other reasons, by his anti-semitism), the Iranian president says he wants to wipe Israel off the map, and appears to be developing a means to do so. Israel sees his response as vindicating its nuclear programme. It threatens an air strike, which grants retrospective validity to Ahmadinejad's designs. And so it goes on. ... So, without any proper public debate on either side of the Atlantic, both nations (the U.S. and U.K.) might have begun ...

07:41:17 January 26, 2006, Thursday (PST) Source: The Mediaburn Radio Weblog

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