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Gregory Peck

Bomb Scare

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Twenty years ago today, at a press conference aboard the Russian cruise ship Maxim Gorky, the end of the Cold War was officially declared. And yet the fear accompanying nuclear weaponry remains, as evidenced byPresident Obama’s explanationof the stakes in Afghanistan on Tuesday night: “We know that al Qaeda and other extremists seek nuclear weapons, […]

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