Way back in 1939, the brilliant genius Albert Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon, an atom bomb, and suggested that the U.S. creates such a bomb before Germany did.
I don't have the details of what happened next. All I know is, the U.S. created atom bombs in time to end World War 2 in 1945 by blowing two Japanese cities to kingdom come.
It's interesting to note that Einstein had fled Germany in the 1930s to escape the injustices that the Nazis meted out to Jewish people. Had he not fled, he would probably have helped the Nazis create an atom bomb, leading to easy massacre of Jewish people and other "inferior" races.
God be thanked it is only the just and humane United States, with its tenets of liberty and justice for all, that successfully developed and deployed atom bombs during World War 2. Its enemy nations could therefore not retaliate when it dropped the bombs in Japan.
Things changed not long afterwards because several major powers acquired nuclear weapons. So if the U.S. had dropped an atom bomb in Moscow during the Cold War era, the Soviet Union would have retaliated in minutes, which was why Einstein said, "I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
Einstein's point was that World War 3 would involve the use of more atom bombs that would lead to massacre of many people, sparing our brethren in remote areas who would use sticks and stones to fight World War 4.
Now, I remember reading in an old international news magazine (either "Time" or "Newsweek") when I was in high school at Starehe Boys' Centre, of a celestial object that collided with Jupiter in 1994. Maybe if the same object had collided with our beautiful Earth, it would have led to the extinction of some living species.
Such a catastrophe is what has set me musing on the potential use of atom bombs to save the human civilization from extinction, leading me to come up with what I call the Thuita Doctrine which states as follows:
The international community should team up to create and rocket seven atom bombs to the international space station in readiness to smash to pieces any celestial object that might be spotted to be on a collision course with the Earth.That Thuita Doctrine could save the human civilization from the kind of extinction that befell dinosaurs when an asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago. So atom bombs, which some world leaders thought could end the human civilization, could actually save it. See?
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