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Jerry Brown
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Governor of California, 1975-83 & 2011-19. Executive Chair @BulletinAtomic. Chair @CalChinaClimate. Member @NTI_WMD & @CouncilonCJ. Age quod agis.
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Scientific knowledge & technology continue to advance.
Our ability to reduce, much less eliminate, the nuclear threat has not.
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Our ability to reduce, much less eliminate, the nuclear threat has not.
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www.nybooks.com ‘I Taste Ashes in the Wind’ | Jerry Brown Ever since the end of the cold war, the subject of nuclear war and the profound threat it poses to humanity has suffered a “peculiar invisibility.” This Really bad. But can Washington folk get their hands around an arms race in space when they can’t do it on earth?
“The United States, Russia, and China may not yet be in an arms race, but they are gearing up for one,” writes @ArmsControlWonk. “It is in the space sector that the competition is intensifying most quickly.”View quoted post on X
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Trump’s missile defense will be met by Russia’s and China’s offensive response. Trump does not understand the “fallacy of the last move.” Moves engender countermoves. Only mutual agreement can stop the insane cycle.
“Arms competition is a symptom of great-power enmity, but enmity alone does not induce an arms race,” writes @ArmsControlWonk. “Powerful countries begin amassing arms when they grow concerned about a change in the strategic balance.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…View quoted post on X
The dashboard was never intended to serve as a cudgel for local school districts to kill competition & punish parents & students. That is what makes the situation at Aspire Golden State Preparatory Academy so troubling.
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calmatters.org Push to shutter Oakland charter school hinges on a misguided approach to accountability Oakland officials are using a cherry-picked data point to justify closing an important charter school, argues former governor Jerry Brown.