The explosion of a terrorist’s single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster.
ALAN CRANSTONNavy 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 they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack.
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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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You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
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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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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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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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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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If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
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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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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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The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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