The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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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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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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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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The organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.
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Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
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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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As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.
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There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time.
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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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Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
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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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Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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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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