An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
ALAN CRANSTONAs they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack.
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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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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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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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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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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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The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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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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Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
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Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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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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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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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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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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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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