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...special learning experience." (Pihl) Many of them are serious whether about learning Physics or learning the English language and most are friendly. Many others speak only Spanish and kick soccer balls against your dorm room window at 5 a.m. Hurtling, spinning, crashing Chemistry textbooks and stereo components do not deter them. It is an irony unresolved...
...post-war period, with all of its grief, has been a period of peace for 37 years....There have not [been] many periods of 37 years of peace. The principal reason for the peace in my own view is that the United States has had the military force to deter the Soviet Union for attack--either with conventional or nuclear weapons, and because, in part, Germany has been divided and Japan has been militarily weak and under the American nuclear umbrella. It may be that there are other worlds that are better than this world, but I don't think...
...believes that deterrence is what prevents war, and war will be nuclear, so deterrence prevents nuclear war. And I think one of the problems that has emerged...that, with respect to our nuclear weapons, we really go beyond deterrence. I think that it is true that we have to deter the Soviets from striking the the United States with nuclear weapons or giving them an opportunity to think that they're in a position to do so....The problem is that we try to sort of expand the usability of nuclear weapons, and it's a recognition of that that...
...Civil defense is not military, it is a passive defense measure," Clanahan says. "If we had the capability to evacuate at least as quickly as the Soviets, civil defense might actually deter a nuclear attack by denying a disparity in vulnerability...
...some ways he is the most capable guy they have," says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's longtime adviser on Soviet affairs. Andropov is also believed to be something of an intellectual, with an interest in rare books and modern art. This did not deter him, however, from dispatching bulldozers to roll over and destroy a 1974 unofficial exhibition of modern painting in Moscow...