UN nuclear family bows unanimously to Chairman Obama

Yes, Barack Obama in New York just became the first POTUS to chair a session of the United Nations Security Council.

However, I was so surprised at the result of the session proceedings that I just could not help having a good laugh.

By the way, a POTUS just means President Of The United States - a term that I first heard used by a male CNN news presenter last month or so.

A UN Security Council (UNSC) session agreeing unanimously to ban all nuclear weapons? Ha-ha. That's a laugh!

I mean, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty principles were never obeyed and have been flouted over time since the end of World War II by France, Pakistan, India, North Korea, and recently Iran - and those are just the ones that have been observed by or reported in the global news media.

Who will be the first to blink and drop her national guard? Can human beings fail to feel naked without some sort of 'ultimate' military weapon to use as a last resort in order to teach another errant aggressor a big lesson that would not be forgotten in a hurry?

Peace has been described as just the period between one war or the other. I just hope that the UNSC resolution does not turn out like the one that occurred in Ghana between the warring factions from Nigeria at Aburi.

There, the then Nigerian Federal Government Head of State and the Biafran Rebel Governor and their entourage had agreed on the way forward to prevent the rebel secession.

When the Head of State got back home, his Northern Nigerian mentors literally told him that he must have been off his rocker to agree to cede the Niger Delta region to the Rebel State Governor!

So, from a peaceful agreement abroad to a Civil War at home was the result of the meeting on safe and neutral ground between Gowon and Ojukwu. The rest is history...

With that anecdote in mind, I could not help being amused by the news of a unanimous agreement to disarm all nuclear weapons on Earth.

What have all the ex-nuclear bomb testers and the potential ones - like Israel, probably - have to say about all this happy news?

I remember a comment some years ago by somebody in the news to the effect that the US stealth bomber - that was supposed to be capable of evading enemy radar in flight - would be so big that the enemy would not need any radar at all but just had to look up at the sky to see the stealth bomber coming a mile away! Ha-ha.....

Of course, the nuclear non-proliferation idea has died a natural death - even my country Nigeria is dreaming of installing nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

Someone once interviewed on television opposed the idea on the basis of the dangers involved and dared those who thought otherwise to site the power plant in their own villages!

Yes, quite a howler...Ha-ha...

Perhaps, that kind of anomaly informed President Obama to cancel the 'Star Wars' type European ICBM defensive shield and concentrate more on developing the more versatile short to medium range missile defence system.

Obviously, POTUS Obama is just being realistic in achieving agreement on a general worldwide nuclear weapons disarmament.

Why knock ourselves out with sophisticated weapons when a relatively crude asteroid attack could eclipse our entire race of humans - pets, warts, blights, and all?

In fact, in my humble opinion, the 'Star Wars' defense system based on the more flexible short-range and medium-range arsenal should most likely prove much more useful against asteroids than anything else available right now.

Perhaps, also, as someone says here, Obama could be afraid of the fallout from a possible dirty bomb attack that cannot be cleaned up efficiently because of ill-preparedness?

Who knows? Whatever the reason that prompted all the UNSC delegations to vote unanimously against nuclear weapons, Iran and North Korea would definitely be left holding the short end of the stick when the consensus countdown to retaliation and sanctions begins...

And most probably deservedly so, too. What do you think?