REFLECTIONS ON NUCLEAR DETERRENCE: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Accept the Bomb.
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Accept the Bomb. I n the early 1980's I was an active supporter of CND. I marched, I protested, and in Easter 1983 I held hands to form a human chain linking the US nuclear bases in southern England. Human Chain Easter 1983 My support was not purely based upon a deep abhorrence of nuclear weapons, - what sane person doesn’t feel such abhorrence. No, I was as much concerned by the gung-ho attitude of the Reagan and Thatcher governments of the period. With all the talk of missile defence shields and ‘tactical’ devices you did not have to feel especially paranoid to think that, Reagan in particular, they were just mad enough to use them. So I don’t regret my involvement not even that we might have proved useful to Russian propagandists; ‘playing into the hands of…’ always a weak argument, particularly when moral issues are concerned. I have however changed my mind and I could no longer support CND. My abhorrence of these we...