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This planning, against a day that hopefully will never come, is prudent. But it is imperative that the U.S. never again use weapons of mass destruction before its adversary. The historical argument in favor of preserving a first-strike option—that of the Soviet Union starting a massive...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Necessary Nuclear Deterrence | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

Throughout the Cold War, the United States embraced the idea of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction. Due to this counter intuitive logic, the U.S. and the USSR were able to survive decades of intense geopolitical competition without engulfing the world in a nuclear holocaust. Today, as then, the threat...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Necessary Nuclear Deterrence | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

We have the strongest conventional military in the world, and President Bush has proposed a $48 billion increase in defense spending this year. If we must defend an ally, we can do it on the ground, in the air, and at sea. We have gone 55 years—including...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Necessary Nuclear Deterrence | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

The suspects fled the scene but were later stopped by police and issued trespass warnings. HUPD charged Doug Clark, 19, of Bedford, with malicious destruction of property under $250.

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

There was no time this impulse to aggrandize the bad was more evident than on September 11, when Osama bin Laden was instantly and predictably elevated into the brotherhood of the brilliantly wicked. Look! the commentators said. See how he got our attention with the first plane so the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Idiocy of Evil | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

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