Perilously Slanted

As every serious follower of nucular geopolitics is aware, there is no such thing as an enemy deterrent. Despite the recent formation of the Triple Alliance against the beastly French, the Heathen Chinee appear intent on challenging the United States, possibly over the issue of plucky little Formosa. Doubtless concern for democracy, and by no means the wish for a larger annual increase in the Pentagon budget, explains why the only power in history to use nuclear weapons against human beings is squealing like a pot-bellied pig in napalm because the arsenal of a lesser breed may, within the present still rather young decade, slope towards a size one-tenth of its own.