The problem must become the solution

To the editor:
One of the greatest visionaries of all time, Jules Verne, tackled the greatest issue of all time in one of his novels: What to do about the threat of nuclear proliferation? Jules Verne's solution: Let it spread to all nations as a hedge against constant war. For what nation would dare to launch war against another if it meant nuclear retaliation and self destruction? So, the problem was not trying to stuff the nuclear genie back into the bottle but rather how to put the the genie to work in the cause of peace for a change. Thus does the problem become the solution.
Else we are doomed to never ending wars by banging our heads against the wall we have created with the course we are on now. Face it, we are faced with a choice of conventional warfare or nuclear warfare with the logic our present leaders are using to lead us into oblivion.
There must be a better way. Verne had a solution to the problem by turning it into a solution, must as Aristotle advised so long ago when he said that the solution to problem is inherent in in the statement of the problem.
Jim Reine
International Falls, MN