Why?

Why does Iran want a nuclear weapon? Because, unless they have them, they will be destroyed by those who have them. We are watching the process right now, not only in Iran but in Ukraine as well. We just saw the same thing in Gaza. If you have nuclear weapons, you can literally get away with murder.

This situation, where nukes protect only those who have them and endanger all those who don't have them, and many other important considerations encouraged 122 nations in 2017 to create the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which bans "developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, using, or threatening to use nuclear weapons."

No one wants Iran to get a nuclear weapon. But do you trust Trump with them? Biden? Netanyahu? Kim Jong Un? Putin? Xi Jinping? Anyone?

I hope I won't be saying these words of Daniel Berrigan's brother, Philip, in the near future, but I will say them when the time comes: "I die with the conviction that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the Earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the Earth itself."

Best Regards:

Patrick Henry

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I think this is my 200^th weekly “Our Story” column since I started writing them in March of 2022. That’s over 200,000 words! Like War and Peace.

I thought by now that everybody in the world would have read and committed to memory all of them and changed their ways so that peace and harmony might rule the planet like in the musical Hair, the Age of Aquarius.

Obviously, I was wrong.

In 200 different ways — at 200 different levels of imagery — all I’ve been saying all along is simply that there’s enough for everybody and that everybody deserves to have enough. The definition of “deserves” remains to be seen, like how did it apply to the lazy drunk who lives down the street? But that there is “enough for everybody” is an established scientific fact. I learned that in 1978 when I was a reporter in Detroit and met Lyndon Larouche and he told me about fusion.

So, all I’ve been saying is that it’s not necessary to go to war with our neighbor over a few scraps of meat. That would be crazy, since there’s already enough for everybody.

So what’s the story of World War Three?

Every story has a who, what, when, where and why. It’s the why of the story that draws me in.

During a clinical rotation on a psych ward when I was in nursing school it struck me one night that what makes a person crazy is not so much what they think as not knowing why they think the way they do. The first step to healing is knowing the why.

That's all I've been saying these past four years.

You shouldn't have to read all 200 columns to catch my drift.