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.
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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The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War.
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Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
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Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.
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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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Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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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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Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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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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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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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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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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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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The organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.
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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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