|
reading group guides, discussion, biographies, hip hop clothing, courtauldinstitute, what makes a fat man, fatmen, trade paper, mario molina, nuclear issues, historical u.s., chinese, arms control, alan oppenheimer, email, physical fitness, adult toys, 978 1-58836-408-1 (1-58836-408-9), fat man and little boy actors,
|
In this, he was like most of the Cold War defense intellectuals. The attitude was: We are trained scientists. We’ve studied the situation with detachment and disinterestedness; we have taken nothing for granted, given no hostages to sentiment. And we conclude that the world as it is—in this case, a global rivalry between disaster recovery two nuclear powers in an escalating arms disaster recovery race—is acceptable (provided that the policy changes we recommend are adopted). "On Thermonuclear War” is a preposterous monument to this way of thinking. Complications and qualifications disaster recovery are swatted away like flies. “I will tend to ignore, or at least underemphasize, what many people might consider the most important result of a war—the overall suffering induced by ten thousand years of postwar environment,” Kahn writes at one point.
|
