'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).

 

"In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?"

(Professor Woland aka 'Satan in Moscow' teaching mankind the perils of overconfidence.  From Mikhail Bulgakov's (d1940), "The Master and Margarita" (1928, 1940)