The explosion of a terrorist’s single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster.
ALAN CRANSTONThe idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.
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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 organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
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There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time.
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The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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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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As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack.
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