The explosion of a terrorist’s single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster.
ALAN CRANSTONThe 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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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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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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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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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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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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You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
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There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long 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 probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War.
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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 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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As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.
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