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leading figure in the US peace movement and the Director of Programmes of the American Friends Service in New England, is described as ‘brilliant’ by Daniel Elsberg, former Pentagon and State Department official. Elsberg says he has not read a more important book for many years, and it helps us to understand why the likelihood of nuclear war is greater now than at any time before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The book is also acclaimed by Kate Hudson, Chair of CND, who says ‘Gerson has written a work of the utmost importance and a key to understanding and challenging US global domination and its nuclear core.’
In its 290 pages the author illustrates how the US has used nuclear weapons to preserve its global empire and
bolster its imperial ambitions. He reveals how and why the US made more than twenty threats of nuclear attack during the Cold War against Russia, China,Vietnam and the Middle East and how such threats continued under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and now under George W Bush. Gerson ends with an appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons and outlines what action must be taken to ensure a peaceful future.
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