S.A.L.T.

 Angelina Jolie

Emma Suarez

Some people will think the post is about the little-known Angelina Jolie movie, most will think it is about the chemical element. In some ways, it is connected with chemistry, but not in the way you think.

S.A.L.T. is the acroynm for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, in the 1970's, the USA and Russia came to the table to talk relative peace terms, they realised that unless they stood down the arms race would lead to M.A.D., not the comic, but Mutally Agreed Destruction. In the words of India Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, at the time. "You cannot shake hands with a closed fist."

You may wonder what this has to do with the image on the post?

La Zona is a film from Spain, featuring Emma Suarez, about a plot to hide news of a nuclear accident

Indira Gandhi

 A Divisive Figure

The Closed Fist

Since the parttion of India in 1947, the only person hated more than Muhammad Ali Jinnah who spurred the mass slaughter of Hindus in 1947 is Indira Gandhi. Her policy of mass sterilisation made her a reviled character, who, even now, over 40 years later is still despised.

Yet, one of her sayings is true, she once said, "You can't shake hands with a closed fist."

In recent years, there was concern that if Hillary Clinton won the US election, there would be three ladies in power, and according to Confucius this would be the end of the world, sorry we passed that hurdle in the 1980's with Indira Gandhi in India, Margaret Thatcher in the UK, and Golda Meir in Israel