The New Nuclear Race Has Begun—But This Time, The Bomb Thinks
A new race has begun in the halls where presidents pretend to be gods and generals rehearse the next apocalypse. But this time, it’s not an atomic bomb. It’s something more insidious. Something that can replace you, swallow you whole, and spit out your bones—a general artificial intelligence capable of surpassing any human at any task.
They call it “Project Stargate” because even Silicon Valley billionaires need a dramatic name to justify a $500 billion check from the US government. Half a trillion dollars were ripped from taxpayers and funneled directly into tech companies without a courtesy question.
And why? Because America is panicking. Because someone whispered into Trump’s ear that if the Chinese get there first, American supremacy goes up in smoke. The story repeats itself: this happened with the atomic bomb and the space race. Now, the threat isn’t Hiroshima. It’s an algorithm that knows everything, predicts everything, and controls everything.
So here we are: a new Cold War, where the first to develop general AI could, theoretically, break the bank of history. The promise? Everything—curing cancer, solving the climate crisis, creating weapons so destructive they’d make Oppenheimer look like a clockmaker. The risk? This thing decides that you and I are irrelevant.
But there’s one problem: building a god requires energy—and lots of it. And the United States doesn’t have it. They could turn to the Middle East, but the sheiks won’t follow Washington’s rules. They could rely on their infrastructure, but the American machine is rusting and outdated.
And that’s where Canada comes in. With its hydroelectric plants and frozen plains, Canada has become the new playground for Silicon Valley’s AI ambitions, and the government still believes it can trust its southern neighbors. Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and now the Pentagon’s go-to tech guru, has already advised the White House: “We need to become better friends with Canada.”
But Trump, ever as subtle as a bull in a china shop, was more direct: “Let’s annex Canada.”
Bluster? Maybe. But you’d better pay attention when a US president starts saying out loud that they want to absorb an entire country.
If you think Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Amazon are backing Trump because they love his nationalist rhetoric, you’re naïve. What they want isn’t ideology—it’s money. It’s power. Control over the technology will define the next hundred years.
They want cheap energy and unlimited data (and don’t think your WhatsApp messages are safe), and they want Washington to ensure that no one else—neither China, nor Europe, nor you—gets a slice of the pie.
And above all, they want no one to ask questions.
And who’s writing the rules of this race? The same guys who used to work for Google, Facebook, and Silicon Valley. Now, they wear suits, roam the halls of Congress, and sign Pentagon reports recommending what would benefit their own companies.
They call it “national security.”
I call it the biggest con in American history.
In the late 1950s, when the Soviets launched Sputnik, Washington went into full-blown hysteria. There was panic—were the communists superior? What would happen if they got to space first? Within months, the US had poured billions into NASA and turned the space program into a race against time. The Manhattan Project had been a warning about what happened when you got there first. Sputnik was a reminder of what happened when you arrived late.
Now, the logic repeats itself: race ahead before the Chinese do. But this time, it’s not physicists in radioactive deserts. It’s lobbyists and billionaires—people who’ve never gotten their hands dirty but know exactly where to find a billion-dollar contract.
If they succeed, they’ll have a machine that thinks for itself. An intelligence that can predict elections, manipulate markets, write speeches that sound human, and lie better than any politician.
“The United States cannot afford to lose this race,” said a senior aide to the Senate Intelligence Committee, speaking anonymously. The Department of Defense declined to comment on “matters of national security,” a White House spokesperson stated only that “investments in AI will secure America’s technological leadership for decades to come.”
And when this monster wakes up, it won’t ask for permission.
The question isn’t if this will happen. The question is, will it even recognize us when it looks at us?