Books: Things that go boom

Culture, atomic bombs: An Indian Christian's cultural analysis should be required reading in Washington | George Grant

A new high-tech arms race threatens to plunge the Asian subcontinent into the horrors of nuclear war. Just when we were beginning to think that the world might be safe for an unfettered expansion of the global economy, this ominous outbreak of cyber saber rattling has put a pall on international markets, international affairs, and international cooperation. And while this most recent crisis may have taken many Americans by surprise-particularly those at the helm of the ship of state in Washington-it is hardly unprecedented. For centuries roiling waves of political instability have rocked this densely populated region of the world and its rival peoples, cultures, faiths, and traditions. These new troubles are merely the same old troubles in different guise.