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While [Rick Perry] has been scoring big, fat rhetorical points with the far right, [Kay Bailey Hutchison] has more quietly proven her- self no slouch in the wingnut depart- ment. She's been outspokenly opposed to [Barack Obama]'s health-care reform plan, calling it "the beginning of a government health- care system that is modeled after Canada and Great Britain." She decided to vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, she claimed, because of the nominee's less-than-purist "views on the Second Amendment." Though she now criticizes Perry for turning down stimu- lus money for unemployment insurance, Hutchison voted against the stimulus package because, as she explained to MSNBC, "it's really tax cuts that will make people spend." In late February, asked by CNBC about Obama's pla...
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Two decades ago, President Ronald Reagan proposed a simple yet bold idea to reduce the risks of nuclear-armed ballistic missile attacks and "mutual assured destruction." Decades of research make it clear that current U.S. strategic missile defense programs, at best, might provide rudimentary protection against a small number of long-range ballistic missiles shorn of simple countermeasures.
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TODAY marks the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, when the United States unleashed on civilians the horrific destructive power of nuclear weapons. "The release of atomic power has changed everything," observed Albert Einstein, "except our way of thinking. ... If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. The nuclear arms race -- called by the military, without a trace of irony, MAD or mutual assured destruction -- between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, and our stockpiling of nuclear weapons still, confirm Einstein's insight. Our way of thinking did not change.
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The opinion column "Rethinking the 'zero option' " (Thursday) is a timely reminder of a piece we wrote for The Washington Times in December 2008. The premise in that op-ed was that proliferation of missile and warhead technology since the end of the Cold War has substantially changed the security we believed we enjoyed under the concept of mutual assured destruction (MAD). We suggested that new concepts of security had to be developed for this multipolar world, including a measured assured response strategy, MARS, that would incorporate but not replace MAD.
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Much has been written about what the next president's priorities should be. Iraq? Health care? The environment? The economy? Seldom mentioned is a danger many Americans have chosen to forget - the atom bomb. The damage done to one of the world's great cities by just one atom bomb, not to mention the thousand times more powerful hydrogen bomb, would eclipse any other imminent danger faced by humanity. The United States and Russia have reduced their nuclear arsenals significantly since the end of the Cold War, but each has thousands of nuclear weapons in its inventory even though the strategy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) has become obsolete. The real danger lies elsewhere.
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Much has been written about whether the Senate should ratify the new strategic arms agreement with Russia (New START). In addition to the technical points, there is an important policy reason why senators should not vote to ratify this agreement. It would turn back the clock to the Cold War era of mutual-assured destruction and give Russia an appearance of equality with the United States that no longer exists. When the Soviet Union collapsed 20 years ago, we hoped for a new, non-adversarial relationship with a democratic Russia. Although there has been some backsliding on democracy, Russia today is not an enemy. We do not have nuclear-missile treaties with Britain, France, India, Pakistan, China or other nuclear-weapon states. Why do we need one with Russia?
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Many veterans can share war stories and acts of courage on the battlefield, but there is an entire classification of veterans out there who are often overlooked. They are the ones who served during the Cold War, when thousands of nuclear warheads in the United States and the former Soviet Union assured mutual destruction of the two super powers.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Barack Obama's allies warn that John McCain's attacks on the Democrat's character will lead to the political equivalent of mutual assured destruction: fire your big weapon at your own peril. Several Obama surrogates said his supporters might start reminding voters of McCain's ties to Charles Keating, a convicted savings and loan owner whose actions two decades ago triggered a Senate ethics investigation that involved McCain as one of the "Keating Five.
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Remember the old cartoons in which one character would sneak up behind another and whack him on the head with a mallet, instantly producing a towering egg circled by miniature, chirping birds? "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is the cinematic equivalent of that violent animated altercation -- just as heavyhanded and every bit as painful. In this remake of the seminal 1951 sci-fi classic, an alien named Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) arrives on Earth to deliver a simple but devastating message -- humankind is to be wiped off the face of the planet. Unlike in the first film, Klaatu does not deliver his doomsday message to the people of Earth corporately, but rather to Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly), a Princeton astrobiologist who is the only one to see more in Klaatu's arrival than meets the eye....
