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 CRANSTONThe arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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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 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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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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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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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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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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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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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 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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Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
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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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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
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