Noam Chomsky on US-Russia Nuclear Crises
“If it appeared that the United States was dismantling the missile bases unilaterally, under pressure from the Soviet Union, the [NATO] alliance might crack” — or to rephrase a little more accurately, if the U.S. replaced useless missiles with a far more lethal threat, as already planned, in a trade with Russia that any “rational man” would regard as very fair, then the NATO alliance might crack.
The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the WorldThe Noam Chomsky Website.
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