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Return to Armageddon
Return to Armageddon covers the extraordinary years spanning the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations, a period when the United States, through its victory in the Cold War, led the world away from the brink of nuclear annihilation, and then slowly became aware of the increased threat of nuclear confrontation in a world more splintered than ever before and more at the mercy of fanatics and zealots.
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March to Armageddon
Ronald E. Powaski offers the first complete, accessible history of the events, forces, and factors that have brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. He traces the evolution of the nuclear arms race from FDR's decision to develop an atomic bomb to Reagan's decision to continue its expansion in the 1980's. Focusing on the forces that have propelled the arms race and the reasons behind the repeated failures to check the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Powaski discusses such topics as the Manhattan Project, the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, the debate over whether to share atomic information, the effect of nuclear weapons on U.S. military and foreign policy, and the role of these weapons in arms control negotiations in the last five presidential administrations.
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IS NUCLEAR DETERRENCE IMMORAL?
As a follow-up to their 1983 pastoral letter, \"The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response,\" America's Roman Catholic bishops are re- examining their stand on nuclear deterrence. In their pastoral letter, the Catholic bishops stated that deterrence is largely responsible for the high level of tension in superpower relations since the atomic age began. The United States and the Soviet Union, in effect, have loaded guns pointed at each another. The bishops fear that one day the guns will go off, producing a cataclysmic nuclear holocaust. But at the same time the bishops criticized nuclear deterrence, they gave tacit recognition to the fact that America's nuclear arsenal is a powerful factor deterring not only the use of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons but Soviet non-nuclear aggression as well. In a key passage of the pastoral letter, the bishops provisionally accepted the idea of deterring war through a balance of nuclear military power as long as both sides worked to bring about a gradual reduction of their respective nuclear arsenals.
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