Word: dangerous
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Reinstituting the draft would do more to diminish the danger of nuclear war than the MX supermissile and B-1 bomber programs combined. No one else dares to say it. I understand, of course, that risking a nuclear doomsday is preferable to losing the votes of the 18-year-olds...
Deterrence does not deter, it provokes. In promoting greater escalation, it makes more likely the very thing it claims to avert. We are pursuing peace by gambling with war. We cannot sow danger and reap security...
...article called "Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance,'' which was published last week in the spring issue of Foreign Affairs, McNamara and his colleagues argue that this strategic doctrine is antiquated even dangerous, and should be discarded. Since both superpowers now have such huge arsenals, the four contend, it is unlikely that any nuclear fighting could be limited to Europe. It would escalate into "general nuclear war, which would bring ruin to all and victory to none." The authors argue, furthermore, that first use is no longer credible because the U.S. would then be ensuring its own destruction...
...presentation, to speak for, as well as to, a large segment of society on a serious subject. Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth, still two weeks away from its official publication date, is already just such a highbrow blockbuster. This erudite yet passionate treatise on the danger of nuclear war attracted widespread attention when it first appeared two months ago in three successive issues of The New Yorker, where Schell is a staff writer. The series immediately became the principal manifesto for advocates of a nuclear-arms freeze, as well as an inspiration for numerous speeches, lectures...
...Precisely because these arsenals must not be used, they must keep each other in check. A gross imbalance, while it might not make war any less suicidal, would create opportunities for the side with the advantage to engage in bullying, blackmail, bluffing and adventurism; thus it would raise the danger of a political crisis turning into a military one, inadvertently but catastrophically...