If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
ALAN CRANSTONUnless 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 idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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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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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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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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The organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.
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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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Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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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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Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
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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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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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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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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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