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Nuclear Weapons in the Changing World - Perspectives from Europe, Asia, and North America (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
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Nuclear Weapons in the Changing World - Perspectives from Europe, Asia, and North America (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
Series: Issues in International Security
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Lawrence Freedman One of the major bonuses of the collapse of
communism in Europe is that it may never again be necessary to
enter into a sterile debate about whether it is better to be "red"
or "dead." This appeared as the ultimate question in the great
nuclear debate of the early 1980s. When put so starkly the answer
appeared obvious better to live and struggle in a totalitarian
system than to destroy totalitarian and democratic systems alike.
There were a number of points to be made against this. Communist
regimes had demonstrated the possibility of being both red and dead
while the West had managed successfully to avoid the choice. If we
allowed nuclear disarmament to become an overriding priority, this
might encourage excessive respect for Soviet interests and a desire
to avoid any sort of provocation to Moscow, a point not lost on
those in Eastern Europe who were then struggling against repression
and could not see why disarmament should be given a higher priority
than freedom. Now that the old communist states have liberated
themselves and the West no longer risks conspiring in their
enslavement, there is a correspondingly re duced danger of mass
death. As a result, and with so much else of immediate Lawrence
Freedman * Department of War Studies, King's College, University of
London, London WC2R 2LS, England. Nuclear Weapons in the Changing
World: Perspectives from Europe, Asia, and North America.
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