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.
ALAN CRANSTONThere’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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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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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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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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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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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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Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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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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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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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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You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
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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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The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War.
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Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.
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