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In the edition of January 20th of the daily newspaper Lyon Capitale, we learn that city authorities have given financial support to « Street Wars », a life size role game in which participants are called on to simulate murders with squirt guns. Every participant, it says, has a photo and address of a target to shoot down, but also becomes a potential victim of another virtual killer. More
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was one of the main architects of the Manhattan project which lead to the construction of the first nuclear bomb. This bomb provoked the destruction of Hiroshima, then Nagasaki in Japan in 1945. This was the result of the outbreak of the first nuclear war in human history. After this, the scientist never stopped questioning the moral and ethical issues raised by a discovery the application of which could spread death with such fury and even destroy the whole world. More
In a recent interview given to the newspaper Le Monde, the philosopher Pierre Hassner provided a geopolitical analysis of the global tensions and conflicts in which the Western powers find themselves particularly caught up. According to Mr. Hassner, what is most disturbing at the moment is “the multiplication of civil wars, whether permanent, intermittent or virtual, whether religious, ethnic, political or economic, which threaten to merge together either by extension or by contamination, and to overwhelm entire regions, such as Western Asia, the Middle-East, the Horn of Africa or the Great Lakes.” More
