Nuclear Holocaust
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It is fitting that George F. Kennan writes the foreword to Norman Cousins’ “The Pathology of Power.” In his “The Nuclear Delusion” Kennan says, “I have personally never seen the evidence that the Soviet leaders seriously considered attacking Western Europe at any time in these postwar years.”
These are world-class remarks, like the one attributed by the old Washington Star to Charles Lindbergh to the effect that the Nazis had no aggressive intentions, and besides, the airplane would never be built that could carry a bomb across an ocean.
WILLIAM L. MOORE
Hemet
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