We must never use nuclear weapons

...even when they fire first.

Life before Pride

Nuclear weapons are a menace to our civilisation. With just one miscalculation, the human race will be at an end, our struggles and achievements forgotten to the cosmos.

We all know the arguments, by now well-rehearsed. That nuclear arms ended the Second War; Hiroshima going up in a pyre of smoke to spare us Japanese intransigence. That …