Palace of CrystalCurrent affairs and peace politics: the dangers of charismatic leaders to democracy and the peace of the world, and how peace might be achieved for the longer term. |
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... nuclear action. I have learnt much from her wise counsel. We agree that the world is mad, but differ when it comes to remedies. I put forward a remedy in this book, but Helen is more pessimistic, and fears that there is no cure for ...
... nuclear action. I have learnt much from her wise counsel. We agree that the world is mad, but differ when it comes to remedies. I put forward a remedy in this book, but Helen is more pessimistic, and fears that there is no cure for ...
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... nuclear physicist of the 20th century, Niels Bohr, so worried about the nuclear future that he spent the latter half of his life travelling everywhere trying. * The Nazis claimed moral justification for their 'master race' thesis from ...
... nuclear physicist of the 20th century, Niels Bohr, so worried about the nuclear future that he spent the latter half of his life travelling everywhere trying. * The Nazis claimed moral justification for their 'master race' thesis from ...
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... nuclear weapons. (He was appalled after he had calculated that more than a million deaths of civilians would inevitably follow the mere testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, as long-lived radio-active pollutants spread around ...
... nuclear weapons. (He was appalled after he had calculated that more than a million deaths of civilians would inevitably follow the mere testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, as long-lived radio-active pollutants spread around ...
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... nuclear exchange would perforce revert to the former 'uncivilised' state of primitive hunter-gatherer society described above by Sakharov. Note that Einstein was speaking before the invention of nuclear weapons, and envisioned the ...
... nuclear exchange would perforce revert to the former 'uncivilised' state of primitive hunter-gatherer society described above by Sakharov. Note that Einstein was speaking before the invention of nuclear weapons, and envisioned the ...
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... nuclear days!] cause simple extermination. Both Einstein and Freud focused on the role of leaders as the instigators and therefore the main exciting cause of war, and also on the ease with which they can persuade the populace to follow ...
... nuclear days!] cause simple extermination. Both Einstein and Freud focused on the role of leaders as the instigators and therefore the main exciting cause of war, and also on the ease with which they can persuade the populace to follow ...
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