NUKES PROLIFERATE THE GLOBE

The beat goes on. President Bush is shocked that North Korea has exploded a "nukular" bomb.

When President Harry S. Truman quietly told Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference that the USA had an atomic bomb, Stalin said, "Yes, I know." Of course he knew, with his vast web of subversion operating here. American atomic bomb scientists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1952 for delivering our secrets to the Soviets.

So the USSR also had the bomb. Since then we've been repeatedly stunned each time an uninvited member breaks into the exclusive Nuke Club. We learned of Israel's secret nuclear arsenal because one of its own scientists blew the whistle. He was sent to prison for that.

As of today, we know that India, Pakistan, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, North Korea, and USA have nuclear weapons. Maybe there are others, as yet undisclosed.

The USA is the only member of the club to have used one - or two - of these horrendous weapons of mass destruction. For this reason, other countries probably fear us more than we fear them, and the concept of mutual destruction as a deterrent still prevails.


IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.