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Is It Time to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?

The Soho Forum Debates

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Nuclear Deturance Failed During the Cuban Misso Crisis

If two sets of fighters had found each other and fought it out, there woud have been a nuclear explosion over the soviet union. Robert macmera, kennedy's defense secretary, when asked years later how we got through the cuban misso crisis, said it was luck. The problem with nuclear deterrence is that it has an element built into it that can fail catastrophically,. And that component is us, human beings.

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