The Iranian government admits it’s been secretly building a uranium enrichment plant that can make fuel for nuclear reactors?or for bombs. Experts are questioning why Iran needs nuclear power, since it has plenty of oil. Therefore, it’s assumed they intend to make nuclear bombs. And North Korea continues to build a series of plants that could be used for nuclear power, nuclear weapons, or both.
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One thing this war has revealed is that we’re entering a strange new world. Only the U.S. has the technology and trained forces to fight a truly “modern” war. But that doesn’t make us as all-powerful as it may seem, because countries worldwide are now doing the unthinkable–developing nuclear weapons.
Countries that run their governments according to ancient religious doctrines or outdated political ideas, and countries torn apart by tribalism and infighting, now have the power to destroy–not the world (not yet, anyway)–but the part of it their bombs can reach. It’s like giving a loaded gun to an infant, but it’s too late to lock it away in a drawer now.
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Looking at the TV reports on the war, and reading about the worldwide spread of nuclear weapons, makes Anne Strieber think we’re living in a Strange New World. She reflects upon how, in the early hours of the war, a primitive car bomb set by Kurdish fundamentalists killed more people than had so far been killed by U.S. military weapons?an example of tribal infighting and religious wars going on right next door to the most sophisticated fighting the world has ever seen. Read about the world we’ll be facing in the future in Anne’s Diary.
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British intelligence reports say Saddam Hussein is alive, but left his compound in an ambulance, after it was hit by a U.S. raid. Foreign Office Minister Mike O’Brien says,”We’ve received information that Saddam Hussein left the area in an ambulance. There was some talk that he had been injured, even some suggestion that he had been killed. It seems that is unlikely, that if he was injured it doesn’t appear it was a serious injury.” The information came from “at least one eye witness” to the strike. O’Brien says, “It appears he subsequently appeared on Iraqi TV but again there are question marks over some of those TV appearances. In essence, we don’t know for sure.”
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