The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
ALAN CRANSTONThere will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time.
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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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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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Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
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Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
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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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You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
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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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The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War.
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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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Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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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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If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
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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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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.
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