President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for, as the Norwegians explained, his professed desire to rid the world of nuclear weapons. To that end Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is working with the Russians for a strict and verifiable nuclear weapons inspections regime, the better to one day soon dismantle our nuclear arsenal, depending on the good faith of the Russians not to hide any of theirs, and hoping, naively, that the North Koreans, the Iranians, the Pakistanis, the Indians and everyone who nukes up in response to American abdication of the leadership role will do the same. Of course they will do nothing of the kind, but rather the reverse will take place; instead of everyone disarming, everyone will scramble to nuke up, fearing to be the only kid on the block without a weapon. Given human nature, this will be an unstable situation, with nuclear war a given, and, if President Obama has his way, the United States the only kid on the block unable to defend himself. Since this post is about Armageddon revisited, I am, with your kind indulgence, doing something I’ve never done, revisiting and updating my six month old post called Zero Nukes.

The concept of the zero goes a long ways back in time
A thousand years and more or so they state
When Hindoo mathematicians figured out the paradigm
That nothing was a number just like eight
Since that time we’ve had a few advances ‘long the way
And Roman numbers simply bit the dust
We don’t use C for hundred like that anymore today
‘Cause zeros made the old systems a bust
But zeros had their problems too as Jap pilots soon found
They had no armor or self sealing tanks
A couple fifty cals and they were headed for the ground
And grinning Navy pilots whistled thanks
A zero is a nothing just an empty circled space
A little like the brain of people who
Believe that we can opt out of the nuclear arms race
And live in peace like nuns and Buddhists do
So anyone who thinks that zero is the perfect place
To be in this cruel world of men insane
Will have to look the few and scarred survivors in the face
And say I tried a peaceful world to gain
And just because it didn’t work’s no reason not to try
We’ve proven that we’re better far than they
It’s just too bad so many of you really had to die
But did you think ‘twas zero that we’d pay?
Yes Armageddon came because our president declared
The USA was just another land
And just because our actions made the other guys all scared
It’s not our fault it’s glass where once was sand