ricarleite said: "So we're back to the "Threads"/"Day After" early 80s nuclear era. India and Pakistan, the United States, whose GW Bush backed out of the Missle Treaty and thrown away what Kennedy and Reagan worked, Iran and North Korea performing nuclear tests and developments under the UN incompetent and abrasive sight..."
Kennedy and Reagan's work is not lost at all. We are in a different game now. America and much of the western world have a hard time understanding this, but it is all a matter of religion. They have a hard time understanding it because they like to think religion is outdated and ignorant, and it can be in some cases. The soviets were atheist, when you are an atheist you want to preserve you life as long as you can, because once that is spent, you belief system tells you there is nothing else. The Muslims believe in an afterlife, therefore their death means nothing. This is why they have no trouble blowing themselves up on demand. Because their doctrine teaches that they will reach the ultimate level in the afterlife if they sacrifice themselves in a holy war. Japan was this same way. It is why the kamikaze pilots had no problem slamming their selves into enemy ships. People in the western world can't seem to comprehend this, they seem to think that you can reason with Muslim terrorist and talk them out of it. No matter what rewards you can offer them on earth, they will never compare to the rewards they believe they will receive in the afterlife.