So whats their usefulness? Just to threat each-other and, at best, use nuclear weapons to attack each-others. But then why should human being spend colossal scare resources to kill themselves when if we offend nature, it has its own way to punish us.
World, particular rich nations, were spending more than 105 billion USD annually or roughly 12 million USD an hour, according to a Global Zero Study on Nuclear Weapons cost in 2010. At this rate, it was estimated that nuclear-armed states have spent at least 1 trillion USD till today). And look at the annual budget of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs and it is only 10 million dollars. And see how Green Climate Fund is struggling to secure 100 billion USD a year – just a fraction of global nuclear weapons budget. Isn't it a pity.
So Mr. Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and co and cynic rulers like Imran Khan and Kim Jong-un, all your nuclear might and arrogance are of no use. If you buddies are so mighty, then how is that a very very tiny virus have made you to surrender before it. If you might can't fight a virus and can't protect your people it what for it has been acquired?
The mightiest China was the first country to be badly hit by the coronavirus. As many as 18,906 people have died (official figure but unofficial put figures at millions) and 295,251 were infected out of which 109,145 had fully recovered. And the mightiest of all U.S has reported 54,916 coronavirus cases with 784 deaths.
And now WHO has warned that U.S could become the global epi center of coronavirus pandemic. As of today, Confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has exceeded 377,000 across 194 countries. In last 24 hours, 85 percent of new cases were in Europe and the United States, and of those, 40 percent were in the United State.
The highly contagious coronavirus has put the entire world under lock down. In many countries, soldiers are patrolling the streets to keep people indoors, halting services and production and breaking supply chains.
Clearly, Nature has punished us for violating it. Despite repeated warnings, we have never bothered to care. All those in power, the world over, just indulged in blaming and browbeating each-other. It was height of irresponsibility that On June 1 2017, President Trump announced US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Now experts say we didn't learn from the SARS epidemic of 2003. It claimed nearly 800 lives, Unfortunately, health officials and scientists regarded coronaviruses simply as one of many causes of the common cold; some 30 percent of common colds start from coronaviruses until it turned out deadly, We also didn't learn from MERS epidemic in the Middle East in 2012, another type of coronavirus that killed 858 people. The irrefutable lesson from SARS and MERS was clear: coronaviruses could spread quickly and be deadly.
The reasons are obvious: Top leaders were too arrogant of their scientific-technological and military might and remained busy in leg-pulling. Even after outbreak of coronavirus, two super power-US and China- blamed each-other for virus spread.
Its time we learn from our mistakes and henceforth focus on spending our resources for the welfare of human beings.