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...Nye: Let me reply on the extended deterrence. I think it still is important. In the balance of power since 1945 it has rested on the back of the major industrial areas of the world....close to the Soviet Union, which sets some of the basic dilemma of extending deterrence....The arguments about extended deterrence being dead: I think it's premature. But you are probably going to work in a mixture where there'll have to be more of a conventional component in it than a nuclear component...
...Nuclear Revolution. Michael I. Nacht, associate professor of Government and author of The Nuclear Question and The Nuclear Revolution: Michael L. Nacht associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School, currently finishing a book on strategic nuclear questions for the Brookings Institute in Washington. Joseph S. Nye Jr., professor of Government who had dealt with proliferation issues as a State Department officials in the Carter Administration and Martin J. Sherwin, a visiting scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and author of A World Destroyed. The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance now writing...
...Nye: I tend to agree; I think it's worth remembering just two things. One is that it's not the first time we've seen an upsurge of public concern about nuclear weapons. I was a student at Oxford in the late fifties, and at that time there was a very strong anti-nuclear movement, which then receded during the sixties to be born again...
...much more difficult to image the darkness coming "home to hold your hand," as she write in "For Lost and Found Brothers." When the words are tied in closely with the actions they describe, the strange music is amplified. Nye's poems are of their strongest when they move along lines of thought that excited before the poem were written, or when the images carry the solidity and weight...
...poems are not self-indulgent, though-if anything, they indulge language and other human inventions. From folklore and wisdom to religions to the names of cities, Nyes continually moves from one or two small image to larger concepts. When she tries to move too quickly, the poems end anticlimactically, with a four or five line closing. Always, the message is that there is something bigger at the end of the reverie than what was there before, whether the poem started with rock or man or quetzal. It's easy to get carried away when dealing with large topics...