Nostradamus C3 Q12: The eternal dilemmas of military innovation.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

In December 2014 there was a symposium held to discuss the progress of the nuclear disarmament treaty of 1994 between Russia and the USA.

The initials of the group behind the event has the acronym of HURI (Harvard University Research Institute) and this is an important remnant in the anagrams of the fourth line of this verse.

It is a remnant in the sense that a quite rational sequence can be assembled from every day-words except for the letters HURI in its midst.

On December 12, 2014, HURI held a symposium entitled Twenty Years after Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: Success or Setback for International Security? It was an opportunity to revisit the events around the signing of the Budapest Memorandum and to discuss the lessons of its breach for Ukraine and the rest of the world as well as the implications for international nonproliferation efforts and global security.

There is another scientific reference point in the anagrams that has intriguing accuracy. In the second line there are adjacent anagrams for saltpetreand nitrate (Et par l'eſta - t Aretin). Saltpetre is a chemical that has the chemical name Potassium Nitrate. Imbedded in the same line is the name Tamerlane ( Leman et Ar)a fourteenth century Mongol warrior whose memory still terrified the world of the early sixteenth century. But Tamerlane's war machine was the foundation of the gunpowder revolution that swept Europe's military systems in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and saltpetre (Potassium Nitrate) is an essential part of gunpowder.