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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are more cases occuring in the 18-year-old and older groups than ever before, because many in this age group were not immunized when they were babies or school-age children," he said...
...Boston Study Group comes closer to the truth than most. Its members--four academies, a politician and a graphics artist--have thought about the consequences of nuclear war. They have imagined Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and have wrought their vision into The Price of Defense, a book about the American military that is at once humane and informative, radical and sensible, evident yet original. For the most part, they have avoided both the military jargon that sanitizes insanity and the tired, violent rhetoric of destruction. Though the book's voice is somewhat anonymous (an inevitable result of group writing) occasionally lapses...
Formed out of a meeting at the Harvard Faculty Club in 1973, the members of the Boston Study Group met weekly for four years, talking, writing, criticizing, trying to find a way to "re-orient American foreign policy" away from future Hiroshimas and Vietnams. In The Price of Defense, they have made sense of the senseless--they have brought order to the chaos of American foreign and military policy. The present system rests on the assumption that more military spending means a safer nation, and it fails to subordinate military spending to the government's foreign policy goals. The system...
...missile gets built. The neutron bomb grabs the public attention, while outmoded long-range bombers are deployed. "The broad links from major military forces to policy goals, on the one hand, and to alternative levels of military spending, on the other hand, have not been made clear," the study group says...
...Price of Defense succeeds in forging those links and providing the alternatives. The Boston Study Group members begin with a coherent view of what U.S. foreign policy goals should be--defense of our traditional allies and of the United States itself, and the maintenance of a nuclear second-strike capability. In calm and modest style, they then describe in detail how U.S. defense spending could be reduced by 40 per cent. They propose cutbacks in the forces "which are primarily useful not against the U.S.S.R. but against the lesser military powers in the poorer half of the world, like Vietnam...