James Carroll’s “Revelations of the War in Ukraine”

What the war in Ukraine tells us about the unabated danger of nuclear weapons.

The ubiquitous Cold War-era “fallout shelter” signs, which still dot the American landscape, rusted and ignored, as memento mori.

For the past 40 years, there has been no more eloquent or passionate opponent of the madness of nuclear weaponry than James Carroll.

A child of the duck-and-cover era and son of a three-star Air Force general, Carroll entered adulthood as what used to be called “a radical…

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