Robert C. Koehler: Survival without bombs or borders
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Apr 11, 2024
3 minutes
An enormous flash, a mushroom cloud, multi-thousands of human beings dead. We win!
Nuclear weapons won’t go away, the cynics — the souls in despair — tell us. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. You can’t, as Gen. James E. Cartwright, former head of U.S. Strategic Command, once put it, “un-invent nuclear weapons.” So apparently we’re stuck with them until the “big oops” happens and humanity becomes extinct. Until then: Modernize, modernize, modernize. Threaten, threaten, threaten
make the case that this is completely false: We’re not “stuck” with nuclear
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