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Nuclear Learning
Quotes of the week:
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” –Benjamin Franklin
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
“The more places you’ll go, the more you’ll learn.” MK
How do we learn about the Bomb and about arms control? How do we come to hold views and what does it take to change our attachment to them?
My answers to these questions are personal and not steeped in social science research. I believe our views are a reflection of individual experience, reinforced by the information we are most inclined to absorb.
on the front line of the east/west struggle. the fears in the early 1980s were, if things went wrong, they would totally go wrong. we might be at the cusp of total nuclear war. the largest anti-nuclear protest engulfed manhattan. up to 700,000, comparable to largest of the anti-vietnam rallies a decade ago. this is life. this isn t political. this is about the future of life. ronald reagan thought that the freeze movement was ridiculous. that the weapons were way too high, that it would block in soviet superiority in numbers he wanted to eliminate. the nuclear freeze proposals, beware of declaring both sides equally at fault. to ignore the facts of history and the impulses of an evil empire, to call the arms race a misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle of right and wrong, good and evil.