@Dan_Bowdoin I keep circling back to him, in part, I suspect, because he was always so fully grounded in matters of realpolitik. Few, surely, have filled the shoes of public theologian as ably as he. Did you ever hear what he had to say about nuclear weapons?
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Copy of tweet here: The American Peace Information Council (APIC) and Green Audit (UK) are conducting an investigation of "Israel's" possible use of small nuclear weapons in Gaza and South Lebanon. They are asking for car air filters from ambulance, hair samples, soil samples from bomb craters.
@bfcarlson Final words: "We've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament and we ought to recognize this common predicament." ~ Rheinhold Niebuhr
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting... 8:48 AM · Aug 7, 2020