{"id":24959,"date":"2017-12-09T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24959"},"modified":"2017-12-09T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T21:22:39","slug":"walking-into-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/12\/09\/walking-into-armageddon\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking into Armageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Foreign Policy Journal<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyjournal.com\/2017\/12\/08\/walking-into-armageddon\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walking into Armageddon<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA few days ago former US Secretary of Defense William J. Perry added his voice to mine and to those of the few who understand the danger. Perry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-03\/former-us-defense-secretary-explains-why-nuclear-holocaust-now-likely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When the Cold War ended, I believed that we no longer had to take that risk [nuclear annihilation] so I put all my energy into efforts to dismantle the deadly nuclear legacy of the Cold War. During my period as the Secretary of Defense in the 90s, I oversaw the dismantlement of 8,000 nuclear weapons evenly divided between the United States and the former Soviet Union. And I thought then that we were well on our way to putting behind us this deadly existential threat, but that was not to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today,&nbsp;inexplicably to me, we\u2019re recreating the geopolitical hostility of the Cold War, and we\u2019re rebuilding the nuclear dangers.&nbsp;\u2026 We are doing this without any serious public discussion or any real understanding of the consequences of these actions. We are sleepwalking into a new Cold War, and there\u2019s very real danger that we will blunder into a nuclear war. If we are to prevent this catastrophe, the public must understand what is happening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/12\/09\/undoing-the-new-deal-trumans-cold-war-buries-wallace-and-the-left\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Undoing the New Deal: Truman\u2019s Cold War Buries Wallace and the Left<\/a>, demonstrates our long, sad history of getting talked into wars with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Policy Journal has the article Walking into Armageddon A few days ago former US Secretary of Defense William J. Perry added his voice to mine and to those of the few who understand the danger. Perry said: When the Cold War ended, I believed that we no longer had to take that risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24960,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959\/revisions\/24960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}