WHO would have thought, at the end of the cold war, that the world would be closer to a nuclear conflagration in 2007 than at just about any time since 1945? Yet that’s the way it seems today.
Last month the Bulletin of the Atomic Å®ÉúСÊÓƵs, whose board of sponsors I am a member of, moved the hands of its “Doomsday Clock” 2 minutes closer to midnight, as a graphic reminder of the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. It has been more than 60 years since these weapons were used in wartime, representing a great success for deterrence. But…
