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War and Peace in the Nuclear Age (1988-03-03)
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Dr. Randall Forsberg was executive director of the think tank she founded in 1980, the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. In her wide-ranging interview for War and Peace in the Nuclear Age: "Visions of War and Peace," Forsberg explores war-and-peace issues, military doctrine, the history and economics of nuclear-weapons development and policy, war-fighting capability and force structure, scenarios and resistance to arms reduction, the history of relations between the superpowers, and their interactions with developing nations. Seven countries, she asserts, account for 99 percent of nuclear weapons. The dispersal of weapons - in the form of the Rapid Deployment Force, tactical weapons, and missiles fitted with multiple warheads - heightens the risk of war in a world moving toward becoming what she calls "a global nuclear porcupine." Forsberg asserts that "threatening to commit genocide as a way of conducting politics" is one of the most "deeply immoral and subversive acts of government in the modern world." Moreover, she maintains, a conventional military crisis could easily cross that nuclear threshold. Forsberg advocates the three Rs: "reduce, restructure, and restrain…
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public broadcasting, AAPB, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, Poland, Germany, Cuba, China, Korea (North), Afghanistan, Soviet Union. Treaties, etc. United States, 1987 December 8, Sweden, mutual assured destruction, Single Integrated Operational Plan, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (U.S.), nuclear weapons, Nuclear arms control, Gorbachev, Mikhail, United States, Soviet Union, Deterrence (Strategy), Warfare, Conventional, Nuclear Disarmament, disarmament, United States. Congress, Warsaw Treaty Organization, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II, Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968), Soviet Union. Treaties, etc. United States, 1972 May 26 (ABM), World War II, nuclear warfare, Military-industrial complex, Nuclear weapons -- Testing, Intercontinental ballistic missiles, Communism, International Relations, Strategic Defense Initiative, Korea (South), Iran, Middle East, Carter, Jimmy, 1924-, Kissinger, Henry, 1923-, Reagan, Ronald, Schlesinger, James R., Antinuclear movement, Cruise missiles
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