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    A tight grip on our nuclear toys

    by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency Nov 07, 2019 4 minutes

    "Everyone wants to play with the big boys, and the only way to become one of the big boys is to have nuclear toys."

    Attention Planet Earth! Attention Planet Earth! It is time to grow up.

    The words are those of , then director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, from a 2005 interview, several months before he and the agency were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. They remain eerily relevant in 2019, summing up as they do the puerile recklessness that is in the process of regaining its grip on geopolitics. Nuclear weapons treaties are

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