'Peace Keeper' warheads descending onto a Pacific test area circa 1979. The world, via neoconservative policy, is now resorting to the age old 'Peace Through Strength' policy to resolve global conflicts (update 106).

 

"I have been strangely, vividly conscious of another region—not far removed from our own world in one sense, yet wholly different in kind—where great things go on unceasingly, where immense and terrible personalities hurry by, intent on vast purposes compared to which earthly affairs, the rise and fall of nations, the destinies of empires, the fate of armies and continents, are all as dust in the balance."

Algernon Blackwood, 
"The Willows" (1907).