Military Insanity & Homeland Insecurity

By the late 1960s, Bernard Bereanu, a brilliant Romanian statistician specializing in stochastic programming problems and later the author of "Self-Activation of the World Nuclear Weapons System" demonstrated that nuclear deterrence would eventually but unavoidably result in the accidental inception of a nuclear war with the likely end-state of the elimination of modern civilization.

While the public only learned of the automated Soviet "Doomsday Weapon System", designed to respond in the event that no senior controller was able to prevent a response to a nuclear detonation in the USSR in the late 1990s, it is likely that the US military not only knew of it, but probably has a similar but larger system.

This would tend to ensure that even today, Bernard Bereanu's prediction remains accurate. We will most likely be eliminated accidently by our own "defense" systems, at least if we don't deliberately eliminate ourselves before then.

They're rioting in Africa. They're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much!

But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud,
for man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day,
someone will set the spark off... and we will all be blown away.
They're rioting in Africa. There's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us... will be done by our fellow man.

Merry Minuet - The Kingston Trio (1959)