"The news was buried on inside pages of America’s newspapers and all but ignored by the TV news. Yet it sent shock waves of concern rippling through the world’s nuclear and anti-terror cognoscenti. In an era when global terrorists are aggressively seeking weapons of mass destruction for just one purpose — to use them — President Vladimir Putin’s Foreign Ministry quietly issued a statement on its website, on the evening of Oct. 10: Russia will not renew its Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction partnership with the United States when the present agreement expires next June."
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Russia drops a bombshell on U.S. nuclear safeguard plan | PoconoRecord.com
Interesting - I didn’t know anything about this. Loved this quote:
“The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
The speaker was not a famous professor or antiwar activist. It was five-star Gen. Omar Bradley, the World War II hero, speaking in 1948, shortly after the only time nuclear bombs were detonated in wartime. Sadly, his words ring even truer today.
