 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Great States have, at present the privilege of killing members of other States whenever they feel so disposed, though this liberty is disguised as the heroic privilege of dying in defence of what is right and just. Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Has Man a Future?, G. Allen & Unwin, 1962, p.84
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A weak country will not seriously wage war against a superpower. Even major powers are reserved toward superpowers (or powerful nations). China, too, has been careful of the U.S. when it was relatively weak, but now that it is on the verge of joining the ranks of the superpowers, it has come to want to use (or “imitate”) the influence that the U.S. has exerted over the world. North Korea's missile tests are condemned by all but North Korea's friends, including the United Nations. However, superpowers such as the U.S. and the Soviet Union have done such acts in the past. However, in the case of the U.S. in particular, it was rarely condemned by the UN, Japan, or other allies. As a result, the U.S. and the Soviet Union now possess such a large number of nuclear missiles that they are capable of destroying the earth many times over. The U.S. is not conducting nuclear tests on the ground now because it has conducted so many nuclear tests in the past and has a variety of data. However, it continues to conduct subcritical nuclear tests. Isn't it “unfair” not to condemn (or make an issue of) subcritical nuclear tests?