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Gorbachev had another idea. Within hours of the U.S. announcement, he declared the Soviet Union would launch a five-month moratorium on nuclear testing. It would begin on Aug. 6, the 40th anniversary of the atom-bomb detonation over Hiroshima, and would be extended indefinitely if Washington joined in. The U.S. rejected the offer. For one thing, Shultz noted as he arrived in Helsinki, the Soviets had proclaimed such a unilateral moratorium before, in the late '50s and early '60s, and then had abruptly begun what he described as "the largest nuclear-testing program ever undertaken." Nonetheless, the Gorbachev proposal...
Pearl Harbor is no excuse for Hiroshima. The Japanese attacked a military base; they did not incinerate downtown Honolulu. The atom bomb could have been exploded over Tokyo Bay, within sight of the Emperor. Even the flattening of Mount Fuji would have been preferable to carbonizing humans. Jake Cipris Millburn...
...Editors: Just as Hiroshima was the first city where the Bomb was used, I pray that Nagasaki will be the last [SPECIAL SECTION, July 29]. It will be a victory for mankind if the first and last use of the Bomb occurred 40 years ago, when the Bomb's destructive power was still measured in kilotons and not megatons. Noshir K. Medhora Houston...
...cannot undo the past, but we can avoid repeating Hiroshima in the future. I hope our politicians realize that. Jinmin Oh New York City South Africa's Dilemma...
...political and historical perspective, Rosenblatt interviewed former President Richard Nixon. "He might seem an odd choice," says Rosenblatt, "but he has a historian's mind and an extraordinary understanding of the world since the 1940s. And for 14 of the 40 years since Hiroshima, he had the authority to use nuclear weapons or was second in command...