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Like all nuclear-weapons??programs, North Korea's should be a concern for everyone. The notion of who is an outlaw and who occupies the moral high ground on enforcing nuclear nonproliferation isn't as clear to me as your article makes out. I suspect that the U.S.'s current work on tactical nuclear weapons and our unwillingness to reduce our inventory of warheads are in violation of the NPT--making the U.S. an outlaw. If we're including violent tendencies in an analysis of risk, the U.S. is the only nuclear power to have used those weapons on human...
...threat of strategic nuclear war of much of its credibility; mutual suicide cannot be made to appear as a rational option. And no alternative nuclear strategy has been developed. Partly for this reason, public opinion, essentially unopposed by most NATO governments, is moving powerfully against any reliance on nuclear weapons???even tactical ones...
...American divisions that have remained in Europe, the alliance is still unprepared to withstand a major Soviet ground attack for more than a few days. European ambivalence continues 35 years after NATO's creation. Our allies remain unwilling to develop forces strong enough to provide an alternative to nuclear weapons???and yet much of their public opinion shies away from even thinking about nuclear deterrence...
...American atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki hastened the end of World War II but left all nations terrified by what would happen if these weapons???to say nothing of their immensely more powerful successors, hydrogen bombs?were ever again used in anger. In the 1950s it was common for American children to practice air raid drills at school, climbing under their desks while instructors coached them not to look out the window at the fireball if it came. Many went home and saw the fireballs in their dreams. When the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles on Cuba...
...already in the pipeline?designed, developed and tested. The problem for the Administration will be to decide which of the new missiles, ships, tanks, artillery, helicopters and communications systems the nation needs, and how much it can afford. In addition. Brown must weigh carefully whether any of the new weapons???by the very fact that they might substantially unbalance the arms scale?will create unnecessary obstacles in reaching future SALT agreements with Moscow...