Is a Third World War Inevitable?

Introduction
Each day it becomes more obvious that mankind must choose between the security of a peaceful society, which only conscious action can bring about, and the insecurity of militarism which is an inherent part of today’s society, the ‘civilisation’ of the bomb and the dole queue.

There are many responses to the threat of war, from the’ Apocalypse Now’ hysteria of those who allow emotion to overcome reason, to the view expressed by a politician like Mrs Thatcher who, when opening Britain’s most advanced torpedo factory , said that such weapons of destruction would serve to defend ‘the British way of life’ (Guardian, 11 April 1981). Those who would have us march round in circles pleading with leaders to ‘ban the bomb’ and those who urge us to sit back in our armchairs and have faith in the wisdom of governments have in common an ignorance of the cause of war and social insecurity.