I dont think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didnt achieve that much even at that time.
ALAN CRANSTONNavy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
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Unless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values.
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As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack.
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Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.
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If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
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I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they’re going to exist. But they’re losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
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I don’t think there’s any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
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Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
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The explosion of a terrorist’s single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster.
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There’s a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter.
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Having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
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Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.
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Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
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Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.
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Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America’s vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S.
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