Quite a lineup on nuclear weapons in today's @washingtonpost Outlook section!
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Absolutely. Nuclear weapons require perfection. And human beings can’t be perfect.
4) So I don't know if I can see a path forward to a world where NWS all disarm. I'm just not that optimistic at the moment, I guess.
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I am somewhat hopeful. Because it’s possible to stop believing in magic. It’s possible to be realistic. —To deny talismanic power.
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For example, at one time the military believed in cavalry as the strongest, best weapon. Knights were the currency of power. That passed.
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Battleships were once thought to be “queens of the seas” until their non-role in WWI and humiliation in WWII. That passed.
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Weapons that serve as talismans of power eventually pass. Our job is to figure out how to deflate their talismanic power.
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Actual elimination, once the myth is busted, will be relatively easy. As the chemical weapons ban in 1925 was relatively easy.
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