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Article: Learning to love the bomb: is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? (Culture & Reviews).('The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed')(Book Review)
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- February 1, 2003
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The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, by Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 220 pages, $18.50
WITH THE UNITED States in a wartime mode with respect to both Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, Americans may have forgotten the scale of the danger that confronted them just a few years ago. The Soviet Union then fielded a huge army that had bested the Wehrmacht and was fully capable of gobbling up large chunks of Western Europe. It supported "liberation movements" around the world with arms and money. It operated a spy network that stole some of our most sensitive and tightly guarded security secrets. And, not least, it maintained an ...