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How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete, by Robert Jastrow (Little, Brown, 175 pp., $15.95)

One reason we aren’t hearing much these days from the nuclear-freeze movement, which only three years ago assembled half a million supporters in New York City, is that President Reagan, with his March 1983 speech advocating strategic defense as a means to “make nuclear weapons obsolete,” appropriated its objectives and rhetoric.

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Dinesh D'Souza

Dinesh D’Souza is a writer, scholar, and public intellectual. He is the author of America: Imagine A World Without Her, in which he explores the landscape of a world in which America had lost the Revolutionary War.

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How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete, by Robert Jastrow (Little, Brown, 175 pp., $15.95)

One reason we aren’t hearing much these days from the nuclear-freeze movement, which only three years ago assembled half a million supporters in New York City, is that President Reagan, with his March 1983 speech advocating strategic defense as a means to “make nuclear weapons obsolete,” appropriated its objectives and rhetoric.

About the Author

Dinesh D'Souza

Dinesh D’Souza is a writer, scholar, and public intellectual. He is the author of America: Imagine A World Without Her, in which he explores the landscape of a world in which America had lost the Revolutionary War.