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When it comes to international affairs, Harvard academics are often associated with a single phrase. For Joseph S. Nye, Jr., it’s “soft power,” for Samuel P. Huntington it’s “the clash of civilizations,” and for Francis Fukuyama, now at Johns Hopkins, it’s “the end of history...
...through the largest demonstration ever held at the test site. Nearly 2,000 people rode buses and cars into the desert to protest the first U.S. nuclear explosion of the year $ and the 25th since the Soviet Union unilaterally declared a moratorium on nuclear testing in August 1985. Nye County authorities arrested 438 people, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Antiwar Activist Daniel Ellsberg, Actor Martin Sheen and Singer Kris Kristofferson, for trespassing on Department of Energy property. Said Sagan of the testing program: "We've built a kind of doomsday machine, which threatens certain global civilizations and possibly even the human...
...relied on the test site to provide steady work. Salaries average $41,000, enough to pay for new homes, sports cars and vacation trips. To residents, the nuclear age has brought the good life; antinuke talk of "economic reconversion" is considered a euphemism for unemployment in Nye County. In the Nevada desert, the protesters are a source of resentment and frustration to the workers. Yet testers and protesters alike profess the same goal: safety in a nuclear age. Says Moore: "Anyone seeing the shots as I have, and the awesome power they have, must realize a person would have...
...audience member suggested that Chinese soft power could be a threat to the United States. But Nye responded that this was not inevitable. “The rise of Chinese power is not necessarily bad for other countries,” he said, arguing that if China remained peaceful, it could instead help East Asia become richer and more stable...
According to Nye, “nations can work together to increase soft power” through cultural exchange programs and trade agreements, for example...