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![Mr. Schlesinger is a nuclear realist. Are we heading toward a nuclear-free world anytime soon? He shoots back a one-word answer: “No.” I keep silent, hoping he will go on. “We will need a strong deterrent,” he finally says, “and that is measured at least in decades — in my judgment, in fact, more or less in perpetuity. The notion that we can abolish nuclear weapons reflects on a combination of American utopianism and American parochialism… . It’s like the [1929] Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war as an instrument of national policy … . It’s not based upon an understanding of reality.” In other words: Go ahead and wish for a nuclear-free world, but pray that you don’t get what you wish for. A world without nukes would be even more dangerous than a world with them, Mr. Schlesinger argues. (via James R. Schlesinger: Why We Don’t Want a Nuclear-Free World - WSJ.com
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Mr. Schlesinger is a nuclear realist. Are we heading toward a nuclear-free world anytime soon? He shoots back a one-word answer: “No.” I keep silent, hoping he will go on. “We will need a strong deterrent,” he finally says, “and that is measured at least in decades — in my judgment, in fact, more or less in perpetuity. The notion that we can abolish nuclear weapons reflects on a combination of American utopianism and American parochialism… . It’s like the [1929] Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war as an instrument of national policy … . It’s not based upon an understanding of reality.” In other words: Go ahead and wish for a nuclear-free world, but pray that you don’t get what you wish for. A world without nukes would be even more dangerous than a world with them, Mr. Schlesinger argues. (via James R. Schlesinger: Why We Don’t Want a Nuclear-Free World - WSJ.com
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