Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
ALAN CRANSTONAs 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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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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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.
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The organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.
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