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...humanities-if having access to the methods that have advanced civilizations since the dawn of human intelligence ... if all those things are irrelevant, then boy, are we irrelevant!" DeLattre is a philosopher by training, and he offers one definition that has an ominous but compelling reverberation in the thermonuclear age: "Don't forget the notion of an educated person as someone who would understand how to refound his or her own civilization...
...terror so eloquently described by Winston Churchill seven years earlier was in full operation. No one of us ever reviewed the nuclear balance for comfort in those hard weeks. The Cuban missile crisis illustrates not the significance but the insignificance of nuclear superiority in the face of survivable thermonuclear retaliatory forces. It also shows the crucial role of rapidly available conventional strength...
...resurgence of traditional values. This upbeat news comes from a man who has taken a particular pleasure in bucking intellectual trends. Kahn, a co-founder and director of the Hudson Institute, infuriated liberals of the early '60s with two books that can still start an argument. On Thermonuclear War and Thinking About the Unthinkable asserted a simple premise: since an exchange of atomic weapons was possible, speculation on the circumstances and consequences of such conflict was natural and useful...
...Essay "The Mind in the Machine" [May 3], Roger Rosenblatt asks if "anyone but a handful of zealots and hysterics seriously believes that the human mind is genuinely imperiled by devices of its own manufacture." The answer is yes, and the clearest example is thermonuclear weapons...
...restraint in others. That proposition has a profound appeal for any American who ponders the dilemma of having to share the planet with a nation like the U.S.S.R. Soviet internal and foreign policies are anathema to American national interests and to universal humanitarian values. Yet the dangerous accumulation of thermonuclear weaponry by both superpowers makes it imperative that they try to get along. Therefore, even the most righteously anti-Soviet Secretaries of State almost always pick up where their predecessors left off, sitting down with the durable Andrei Gromyko and discussing the control of nuclear arms and the reduction...