We are a space-age species living under the permanent threat of self-destruction.
For more than eighty years, the world has lived beneath the shadow of nuclear weapons. We build skyscrapers, raise families, explore space and plan for the future, while weapons capable of destroying entire cities remain poised for use.
We reassure ourselves with the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, trusting that fear will continue to prevent catastrophe.
But can restraint really be guaranteed forever?
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ETERNAL RESTRAINT
The Button: Beyond Mutually Assured Destruction challenges one of the most dangerous assumptions of the modern age: that technological power can forever be restrained by political will.
Drawing upon history, philosophy, psychology, theology and human nature, this short visionary work strips away the abstraction surrounding nuclear weapons and confronts a deceptively simple proposition:
If there is a button to be pushed, someone’s going to push it.
Our greatest danger may not be the weapon itself, but the assumption that civilisation has somehow outgrown its capacity for self-destruction.
THE EVOLUTIONARY LEAP
If the fundamental vulnerability of our species is psychological, then the ultimate solution cannot be merely technical.
Disarmament matters. Diplomacy matters. Deterrence matters. But none of them answers the deeper problem of what happens when extraordinary destructive power is placed indefinitely in the hands of an imperfect species.
The Button therefore asks a more fundamental question:
Can humanity be trusted with ultimate power before it has mastered itself?
Provocative, accessible and uncompromising, The Button looks beyond mutually assured destruction toward the transformation in human consciousness required for lasting peace.
Because the final answer to humanity’s most dangerous technology may not be another technology.
It may be a new heart.
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