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 CRANSTONI 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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You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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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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If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
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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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Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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The organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.
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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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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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Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
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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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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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Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.
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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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