Remember the monsters too!

The decade began with great hope for a transformational U.S. nuclear policy and increased global cooperation. It ended with nuclear risks resurgent across the board. … There is some good news. We end the decade better off than we began by several measures. In 2010, there were 22,400 nuclear weapons on the planet. Today, there are fewer than 14,000, a 40-percent reduction. For the first time in the Atomic Age, a decade passed without a new nation joining the nuclear club. (North Korea became the ninth nuclear-armed state in 2006.) Moreover, there was no nuclear terrorist attack, not even a dirty bomb

Source: Defense One —  Progress, Peril, Hope: The Nuclear Decade in Review

Reading this makes me think we still need to be careful about trusting in the angles of our better nature and remember the monsters of our worst nature exist too.

The monsters might be in hibernation, but let’s not mistake that form non-existence.