Adm. Stavridis Compares North Korea Threat to Ghostbusters
Ret. Adm. James Stavridis made an evocative comparison to an American comedy classic on MSNBC Monday to explain the danger of North Korea's weapons program.
"I think the real danger is probably 18 months, two years from now, two streams coming together," said Stavridis, the former head of NATO and an NBC News analyst. "One is miniaturizing nuclear weapons, the other is long-range ballistic missiles. It's like in Ghostbusters, you don't want those streams to cross."
In the movie, "crossing the streams" may create a "total protonic reversal" that ends life on earth.
The streams are going to cross, said Stavridis, "not in the next week, but probably in the next 18 to 24 months. That will be when we'll be forced to take some level of action. What's happening now, I think we can manage with, more or less, traditional diplomatic tools without getting into a shooting war."