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Learning Not to Love the Bomb

By PHILIP TAUBMAN
Published: February 18, 2009
Stanford, Calif.
THE Obama administration seems ready to resuscitate relations with Russia, including by renewing nuclear-arms-reduction talks. Even before the inaugural parade wound down, the White House Web site offered up a list of ambitious nuclear policy goals, with everything from making bomb-making materials more secure to the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons.
That’s welcome news, but for such goals to be realized, the White House will need to be prepared to reimagine and reshape the nuclear era and, against strong opposition, break free from cold war thinking and better address the threats America faces today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/opinion/19taubman.html?ref=opinion

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