Rise of the Triad

The document lists practical recommendations to enhance efforts relating to the triad of development, freedom and peace.

That triad peace, democracy and development is now the new name for progress made by peoples and for stability in the world.

Regling also revealed that there is now increased and frequent coordination between monetary authorities in the United States, Germany, and China, drawing attention to the fact that the old Triad of the dollar, euro, and yen may now have been replaced by a new Triad of the dollar, euro, and Chinese renminbi. While Regling spoke of an emerging multipolar monetary system, his remarks clearly indicated the functioning of a tripolar system.

We agree with the general approach taken by the report, which is based on the triad of development, freedom and peace, as their interlinkage is of a defining nature for the current international agenda.

Pediatricians wrestled with this conundrum until the 1970 s, when it was proposed that shaking might induce rotational forces and cause the triad of symptoms without bruises or fractures. Over the years, these findings evolved into shaken baby syndrome (SBS), a medico legal hypothesis that remains contentious, and scientifically unproven, to this day.

Though the SBS hypothesis was incorporated into medical training and judicial decisions worldwide, it remained untested for almost two decades. In 1987, the first biomechanical experiments found that the force of shaking is much less than that of impact and concluded that shaking alone was unlikely to cause the triad of symptoms.

India has deployed a nuclear triad bombers, missiles, and submarines and in 2012 tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, giving it the ability to hit Beijing and Shanghai. India almost certainly has a multiple warhead (known as a MIRV), in development, and has also launched satellites to aid its targeting of Pakistan s forces.

Moreover, India is working to safeguard its naval superiority over China. In August, the reactor aboard India s first indigenously built nuclear submarine, INS Arihant, was activated, bringing the country one step closer to realizing its long sought goal of a nuclear triad the capability to launch nuclear weapons from land, air, and sea.

The triad of fundamental forces driving Egypt since the beginning of the Arab Spring the military, the mosque, and the masses in Tahrir Square, each with different types of power and interests was thus broken. Those who filled Tahrir Square 16 months ago were silenced, and the expected transfer of power from the military to a civilian, democratic government was thrown into doubt.

Iran was one of the first countries to sign, and it cooperated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for more than 30 years a relationship that deteriorated only in the last three years. But the current climate of mutual wariness between Iran and the self proclaimed triad of Germany, Great Britain, and France (with sporadic US support) is not propitious to effective negotiations.

Leading proponents of the SBS hypothesis now acknowledge that the triad is a myth, that SBS diagnoses consist of informed speculation, and that the hypothesis is supported solely by confessions. Some courts are following suit, with one US federal judge describing the types of confessions obtained as worthless as evidence, and another noting that, given recent developments, claims of SBS may be more an article of faith than a proposition of science.