New York City, January, 2078, Tuesday…

"Honorable delegates, the President of the United States of America, Mr. Tomas Delgado."

Delgado strode to the UN podium, knowing full well that his speech would be a waste of time. Minds were already made up on the issue. Nevertheless, he launched into what he considered was a reasonable argument for sanity.

He described the negotiations that had gone on in Bogotá, how Colombia and Venezuela had announced their entry into the nuclear club.

"We have no intel on whether or not this saber rattling - and I'm going to call it what it is - we have no intel on whether there are nuclear bombs to back up these threats. We do know that both militaries have the capacity to deliver these bombs, if they exist. I would plead for reason. The oil that is left in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador is costly to exploit. The entire world needs that oil. Let us pull together as a world community and exploit it peacefully."

Delgado went on to describe how ironic it was that the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy had empowered nations to begin such saber rattling over the little oil that was left. "Nuclear energy is both a resource and a weapon. Let us focus on it as a resource for powering our economies, not a weapon to destroy them."

The speech took about forty minutes.