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...only revolutionary fact in international relations since the beginning of history" -- the development of atomic weapons -- may keep the current arms race from becoming too great. Hans J. Morgenthau, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, told a Burr B audience last Thursday...
...Although Morgenthau held out little hope for total disarmament, he believed technological stability might bring a balance between the United States and the Soviet Union, with both sides possessing invulnerable attack forces. Keeping the amount of armaments within reasonable bounds, he stated, should become the "realistic aim" of the government...
...introducing the general topic, Disarmament: Conditions and Consequences," Morgenthau outlined the "general fascination" that disarmament has exercised over the human mind. Even at the present time, people tend to equate the abolition of arms with the preservation of peace--an identity Morgenthau denied...
Disarmament can never be separated from political conflicts, he pointed out. These "underlying, unsolved political conflicts" make any meaningful moves toward disarmament impossible. Only when the two sides no longer fear each other, Morgenthau noted, can disarmament become possible...
...memories until last January, when Matias Reyes, a convicted murderer and rapist serving a 33-years-to-life sentence, confessed that he alone had raped the jogger. Citing new DNA evidence that corroborated Reyes' involvement in the crime and noting discrepancies in the earlier confessions, Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau last week asked a judge to throw out the convictions of the five men. District Judge Charles J. Tejada is expected to rule in their favor, opening the door for the five to file civil lawsuits. But whatever he does will undo little. The last...