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To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans Paperback – July 1, 1999
- Print length374 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSouth End Press
- Publication dateJuly 1, 1999
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100896083217
- ISBN-13978-0896083219
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- Publisher : South End Press (July 1, 1999)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 374 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0896083217
- ISBN-13 : 978-0896083219
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
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Michio Kaku is the co-founder of String Field Theory and is the author of international best-selling books such as Hyperspace, Visions, and Beyond Einstein. Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.
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Christopher P.
But what I failed to realize in my youth and zeal for world peace is that the nations being bullied are by no means innocent little lambs waiting for the day when righteousness will shine like the sun and all nations can hold hands under showers of money. No. Nobody is innocent in this playing field. And I am happy that America, a nation which at least in the majority sense is committed to justice, is in hegemony.
Well. Onto the book.
The source material is first-rate. Dr. Kaku, a celebrated quantum physicist in culture, excavates memoranda from the NSC and White House and other official sources. It's really good stuff. Where he goes wrong is thinking that statecraft should answer to his nagging, whiny old woman ideals. The history he presents is fascinating, as is the facade that is Kahn/Schelling in favor of the real foundation that is Nitze/Kissinger. But Kaku, like many progressives, thinks that strength is a bad thing, and that any grab for resources is somehow against 'the rules'. And yet they eat helpless vegetables and slaughtered meat. They breathe air that can't defend itself, and take advantage of bacteria in their own bodies to help them digest food. You can't escape some things. They cry crocodile tears about global warming yet hobnob around the globe in jets that in one day release more carbon footprint than 1000 cars in July. They write Green Deals and never took a real science class in their life. How can these people think they know anything for the good of the body politic, and yet never have real life practical experience?
Take Kaku. He's never run anything like a State in his life. His hairs have never turned gray over the stress of sending men to die deaths that might have been prevented, in order to protect other men and women whose lives for reasons that protect people like Kaku, are legally more valid.
This book again has fine source material. But it's progressive bent is pathetic and lacks any strength or consistency. Only people who are completely ignorant about the responsibilities and demands of statecraft can read this and agree with its moralistic conclusions. When half of a book is lousy, I give it less than 4 stars. Its source material, though, is so worthy of respect, however, I go from 2 to 3 stars.
Kaku, maybe write something again when you want to take responsibility for some things in politics and not just complain without offering help, complain about the people who have to live with their decisions. Yes, some of them are corrupt and nasty. But the reason the world isn't exploded already is that there are so many good people around that just don't get any attention in communist screeds like this. I did exactly the same thing you are doing. I did. Except I did even less research! I am no better. Maybe worse. But we can do better. We can make our country better. And we can trust God to do the things we just don't understand how to do.
This is an essential text for anyone interested in the philosophy and politics of non-proliferation.