What this means in the current nuclear standoff with North Korea is that there is no room for even the slightest miscalculation, error or lack of caution. Threats and over-heated rhetoric can only set the stage for a cascade of disastrous consequences, which only sheer good fortune has prevented multiple times during our dangerous three-quarter-century experiment of dancing on the edge with the bomb. We can no longer rely on blind luck to save us--from ourselves.
Les Adler is Emeritus Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies at Sonoma State University
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