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Peace-washing the anti-war movement and limiting criticism of Biden and Dems.
This article by Dave Lindorff and appearing in Salon magazine, was researched and written with the assistance of a
grant from the ExposeFacts program of the Institute for Public Accuracy
During the four years of the Trump
administration, resistance and even revolutionary talk were in the air
as organizations with names like The Resistance and Our Revolution brought together liberals, Democrats of all stripes and Sandernistas, all
opposed to President Donald Trump and to Trumpism in all its
manifestations.
When it came to matters of war and peace,
Who’s next?
Experts worry about East Asia and the Middle East
I
N MARCH 1963 President John Kennedy lamented his failure to negotiate a ban on nuclear tests. “Personally,” he warned, “I am haunted by the feeling that by 1970, unless we are successful, there may be ten nuclear powers instead of four and by 1975, 15 or 20.”
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Kennedy was wrong. While many countries explored the idea of nuclear weapons from the 1950s to the 1990s, comparatively few took the next step of actually trying to develop the ability to build them (see chart). Of those few some stopped because the country itself dissolved (Yugoslavia), some because of changes to domestic politics (Brazil), some because of pressure from allies (South Korea) and some through force of arms (Iraq).