SENTINEL WATCH November 13, 2006 Issue

THE GOOD SHEPHERD DEFEATS THE DESTROYER

ROSALIE E. DUNBAR

AS I'M WRITING THIS , news reports indicate that North Korea may be preparing for a second nuclear test, perhaps as a way of confirming its right to be a member of the world's "nuclear club."

Much has surfaced in the last few weeks about that club—the number of actual members, suspected members, wannabe members. It's strange that membership signals a kind of special status, especially when one considers the impact of the first nuclear test in 1945. The scientific director of that atomic bomb project, Robert J. Oppenheimer, said that this line from the Bhavagad-Gita floated through his mind at the time: "'I am become death: the destroyer of worlds.'"

What would make nations want so much to be part of a "death and destruction club"?

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