'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).

 

       "Satan was accustomed to say that our race lived a life of continuous and uninterrupted self-deception. It duped itself from cradle to grave with shams and delusions which it mistook for realities, and this made its entire life a sham. Of the score of fine qualities which it imagined it had and was vain of, it really possessed hardly one. It regarded itself as gold, and was only brass."

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger