Four Horsemen at the Gallop! - "Granted to Take Peace Away From the Earth"

 Where is technology leading?  The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, January 22, 1087, reported the following from a speech  by Ivan L. Head, president of the International Development Research Center:

"It is reliably estimated that one out of every four scientists and technologists in the world engage in research and development is working on weapons. . . . At 1986 rates, the expenditure is more than $1,5 - million a minute. . . . Are we all more secure   as a result of this kind of technological emphasis?  The nuclear  arsenals possessed by the superpowers contain the explosive force of all the munitions expended by all the combatants in all of the Second World War- times six thousand Second World Wars.  Since 1945, there have been less than seven weeks when he world  has been free of military activity.  There have been more than 150 wars of an international or civil nature, which are estimated to have claimed 19.3 million lives, most of them as a result of the efficient new technologies that have emerged in this era of the United Nations." 

By the year 2005, military activity has claimed well over 20 million lives. 

Next time: Four Horsemen at the Gallop! - The Framework of the Book of Revelation

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