"War and Peace in the Nuclear Age"

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This paper explains that the book's central thesis is that the nuclear age was a fundamentally distinct era in human history, rather than following from a coherent, linear series of military, cultural, or historical events. The author points out that Newhouse's greatest offering to today's readers is his ability to provide a snapshot, however biased and imperfect, of the world from whence we come; the diplomatic and military relations between the superpowers in the world of twenty years ago. The paper relates that Newhouse suggests that an individual such as Hitler dominated Europe with sheer military fear; comparatively, in the nuclear age, technology is king.

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"Newhouse's book seems most outdated because of the increasingly multi-polar diplomatic aspects of today's world. The former nation of Yugoslavia alone is an illustration of the tragic aspects of a newly multi-polar, nationalist world. Our own nation's current struggles with the elusive networks of terrorism that continue to plague the safety of Americans at home and abroad also are vexing to Newhouse's analysis. Even in the absence of a bipolar, nuclear era, the threats against Americans have grown."

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