It saddens me to see people actually suggesting using nuclear weapons, creating '25 km. craters', making 'parking lots' of entire regions of the globe so casually, and as if it were a viable solution. Beyond the sheer immorality and horror of mass killing of men, women, children, and destroying entire ecosystems, there's the foolishness of it. Do you think there'd be no consequences? Do you know where the fallout would drift? Who would drink the resulting polluted water? Eat the irradiated crops? Do you think the rest of the world would ever forgive you?

Chernobyl was a small nuclear accident, happened in 1986. Over 20 years later, the children for many miles around are still suffering serious health effects (leukemia, kidney diseases, respiratory problems), and there are a number of projects aimed at getting them out of the district for periods of time in order to give them respite from the poisonous environment they must live in. Quite a few of those children stay with Canadian families every summer.