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Finally someone has said it: the threat to human existence comes not from thermonuclear weapons but from the proliferation of our own species...
Fifty million slain, fifty million maimed, ushers in era of thermonuclear terror: good war? No such thing as good...
...clear that the ecosystem effects alone resulting from a large scale thermonuclear war could be enough to destroy the current civilization in at least the Northern Hemisphere. Coupled with the direct casualties the combined intermediate and long term effects on nuclear war suggest that there might be no survivors in the Northern Hemisphere the possibility of the extinction of Human suspense cannot be excluded...
...glimmer of hope Watching the U.S. and the Soviet Union decide whether or not to resume arms-control talks is a little like watching a thermonuclear version of "she-loves-me, she-loves-me-not." The rhetoric seems to vary with the day and the mood. Still, last week some rays of progress emerged from the murk of suspicion and ambiguity. General Edward Rowny, the chief U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), began the week on what appeared to be an upbeat note by declaring that if the Soviets return to the bargaining table...
...less haphazardly into each side's standing battle plan. Intercontinental missiles came later still. The strategic arms race has essentially been a battle of politics and prestige. The questions behind nuclear weapons are really ones of cost, domestic politics and proliferation. Neither defense establishment seriously fears a general thermonuclear attack started by accident or even by design. In fact, aside from the specter of European conventional clash after political revolution, the only real worries considered by each side are proliferation-a nuclear was started by a non superpower-or perhaps a non-nuclear superpower clash over some other area...