Some call it "the nuclear double standard;" others, "nuclear apartheid;" still others, "America's nuclear hypocrisy." But it has rarely been expressed as baldly as it was during the last days of October 2007.
Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and Randall Forsberg, the genius behind the 1982 Central Park nuclear freeze rally, which the New York Times called the largest political demonstration in American history, both died - with exquisite irony, within a few days of each other.
As if that didn't illustrate enough the tensions of the nuclear age, two Bush administration officials - United Nations Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey - made simultaneous remarks that illuminated the nuclear double standard more starkly than ever. keep reading
As if that didn't illustrate enough the tensions of the nuclear age, two Bush administration officials - United Nations Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey - made simultaneous remarks that illuminated the nuclear double standard more starkly than ever. keep reading
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