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Many people perhaps think it is so.
But two glimpses of reality show us it isn't so. These exposures seem important to register. The first snapshot comes from the old world. The nuclear threat, it turns out, has not changed. You might think that, with the end of the cold war, the US would have reduced its nuclear plans.