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This was called, in the geostrategic jargon of the day, “mutually assured destruction,” or MAD.
Otherwise, they risk plunging their citizens into a period of violence, destruction, and disintegration that could last several decades, and recall the horrors of the first half of the 20 th century.
Today, issues such as infectious diseases, environmental degradation, electronic crimes, weapons of mass destruction, and the impact of new technologies are of importance.
In this scenario, Russian-US cooperation in crisis situations like Afghanistan, or in countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, would become much more profound.
For example, after American voters learned that President George W. Bush had led the United States into a war with Iraq without proof of weapons of mass destruction, they re-elected him.
This would enable workers to weather the transition to the jobs of the future and allow the economy to benefit from new waves of wealth and value-generating creative
destruction.
The
destruction
of a Syrian nuclear facility last year, and the lack of any international reaction to it, are viewed as an example for the coming action against Iran.
Although it is acknowledged in Jerusalem that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would involve grave and hard-to-assess risks, the choice between acceptance of an Iranian bomb and an attempt at its military destruction, with all the attendant consequences, is clear.
For workers to accept more labor mobility and flexibility as creative
destruction
eliminates some jobs and creates others, appropriate schemes are needed to replace income lost as a result of transitional unemployment.
The two countries may not be allies, but neither are they adversaries in a global struggle, bent on the other's
destruction.
Hans Blix will head the UN arms inspectorate charged with searching for, finding, and destroying Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass
destruction.
Since then, we have learnt all too unambiguously that Saddam is obsessed with procuring weapons of mass
destruction
- chemical and biological warheads as well as atomic bombs and the missiles to deliver them.
I have met a number of experts on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and they often compare the two Swedes: "Ekéus is brilliant," they say, "Blix is terrible."
Yet most Europeans continue to underestimate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cyber and propaganda war against the West – a war that aims to help bring to power far-right populists bent on the EU’s
destruction.
Creative destruction, the process of innovation described by the economist Joseph Schumpeter, will be at work.
For a group of people so committed to free markets and so enamored of “creative destruction,” that is a question that urgently needs to be addressed.
Since taking office in August 2009, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has embraced this role, arguing tirelessly that the Alliance’s key security threats stem from global challenges: failed states in developing regions, international cyber-crime, terrorist networks, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, maritime piracy, energy-supply disruptions, and climate change.
The invasion, the absence of any weapons of mass
destruction
or any link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, the pictures of Iraqi civilian casualties, and the subsequent scenes of humiliating mistreatment or torture of Iraqi prisoners and detainees have all contributed to a wide, deep, and probably lasting collapse of sympathy for the US in the region.
The international community has so far pursued policies of destruction, rather than the promised reconstruction.
For the US, the
destruction
wrought by Europe’s rapacious nationalisms, reflected in colonialism and two world wars, had to end in 1945.
But, their policy options need to stress improvement , not dismantlement or destruction, of their rules and institutions.
Furthermore, Libya formally accepted responsibility for the bombing, agreeing to pay more than $2 billion to victims’ families, and to abandon its weapons of mass
destruction
program.
Second, no infrastructure project should be pursued without careful consideration of both its financial costs and benefits and its ecological impact, such as air pollution and
destruction
of ecosystems.
The test of whether multilateral cooperation can be put back on track, and reconciled with America's war against terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction, may come with Iraq's reconstruction.
If it rejects a country's policies, the country faces virtual
destruction
by market panic, as has now occurred in Ecuador.
The current stockpile of nuclear weapons represents more than a million times the explosive power of the bomb whose
destruction
of Hiroshima so grieved him.
Indeed, when the US, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945, they agreed on the “reduction or
destruction
of all civilian heavy-industry with war potential” and on “restructuring the German economy toward agriculture and light industry.”
Many older office buildings in the area were unable to retain tenants, who decided to move away from the ubiquitous scenes of
destruction.
In addition to interstate conflict and the proliferation of weapons – particularly weapons of mass
destruction
– new challenges have emerged, such as terrorism and the involvement of non-state actors in internal conflicts.
The only worse stain on Israel would be if survivors of an Iranian nuclear strike were to lament that, had their country acted proactively, “the third
destruction
of the Temple” – the end of the Jewish state – could have been avoided.
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