ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to relate literature to the bomb to assess its potential in being unreasonable. In the current noise of international relations, North Korea and Iran are testing the ground for the spread of nuclear democracy, and are finding that the reaction from the international community is less than democratic. The Great War and the Second World War produced a range of works that captured the madness of war in terms of engagement and organisation. The arrival of the nuclear weapons seemingly removed heroism from war, leaving only terror to rage on the global landscape. In the realist framework of International Relations, mutually assured destruction (MAD) analysts could justify the escalation of weapons between the superpowers on deterrence. The full-scale nuclear war on earth produces a disorientation amongst the colonisers, which produces criticism on the motivations for expansion and growth.
