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Deterring Our Way to Doomsday

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By William Astore
| nuclear-news.net
Deterring Our Way to Doomsday Mordor is the fictional realm of the Dark Lord Sauron in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, located in the southeastern part of Middle-earth. [1, 2] Loving the Bomb Yet Again by William Astore | Sep 29, 2026 , https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/09/29/deterring-our-way-to-doomsday/ Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
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Deterring Our Way to Doomsday

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By William Astore
| Antiwar.com
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. It’s amazing the enormous sums of money the U.S. government spends on destructive weaponry in the stated cause of deterring massive destruction. It’s MAD, of course, this notion that peace is only attainable via the promise of annihilating another people. And now we know that annihilation won’t be limited to Russia or China or Iran: that a “general” nuclear strike would likely produce a nuclear winter that would end most life on our planet.
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The Chief Legacy of 9/11

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By William Astore
| Antiwar.com
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The chief legacy of 9/11 is as obvious as it is tragic: a state of permanent warfare in the United States, both abroad and in the “homeland” (a term not used in normal discourse before the 9/11 attacks), with millions dead and displaced for no defensible reason. If you’re 25 years old or younger in America, you’ve never known a time when your country wasn’t at war. “Peace” is no longer seen as desirable, let alone possible.
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