Most human beings realized from the very begin­ning that the use of nuclear energy to attack other human beings was likely to result in huge losses, both in terms of life and property. Of course, some said that this was accept­able as long as the damage done was to the enemy, and when all parties had this opinion, Doomsday seemed inevitable.

Some nations felt that they should work together to prevent this kind of madness, by coming to an agree­ment on how nuclear technology should be controlled. The outcome of such an agree­ment was a ‘Treaty’ that was signed by a number of nations. Of course, some nations had to be ‘persuaded’ to become a signa­tory to the ‘Treaty’ but that was not worri­some, because these nations were not econom­i­cally or militarily powerful, and their opinions could be suppressed.

Unfor­tu­nately things did not work out too well. The ever-changing polit­ical scenario made the ‘Treaty’ irrel­e­vant in the modern context, and soon new ones had to be formu­lated. The ‘Treaty’ became one of many treaties. Each one was flawed in its own special way, and faded away with time.

And so the stale­mate continues. Maybe we’ll have to wait for the forma­tion of a World Govern­ment for the issue to be resolved. A World Govern­ment would have to be more powerful than any single nation in order to be successful. Moreover, it would have to be free from polit­ical influ­ence by individual nations, so the United Nations is ruled out of the contenders’ list. The other names in the list are…well, there aren’t any.

The problem is essen­tially one of trust. It’s diffi­cult to get two people to agree to something when they’re not sure of the other’s inten­tions; how do we get things to work out between countries and cultures?

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