George H. Quester is professor emeritus at the University of Maryland. He has taught defense policy and arms control, American foreign policy, and international relations at Harvard and Cornell universities, UCLA, the National War College, the United States Naval Academy, and George Washington University.
-Quester, professor emeritus of international relations at Maryland
and a former director of peace studies at Cornell, leaves no
hypothesis unexamined in asking why the United States did not use
its nuclear monopoly in 1945-1949 to keep it that way, either by
threat or by preventative war. . . . Quester's surprisingly
dispassionate willingness to evaluate all nuclear war scenarios may
remind one of Russell's strong interest in another policy outcome
book, Kahn's On Thermonuclear War. An important question for
Quester is whether a preventative war against the USSR, with the
attendant moral as well as physical sacrifices, would have been a
temporary solution. He judges it -much less than the
once-and-for-all solution to the problem of nuclear weapons-
(p.19)--unlike Russell's intended world government solution.-
--Kenneth Blackwell, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell
Studies
"Quester, professor emeritus of international relations at Maryland
and a former director of peace studies at Cornell, leaves no
hypothesis unexamined in asking why the United States did not use
its nuclear monopoly in 1945-1949 to keep it that way, either by
threat or by preventative war. . . . Quester's surprisingly
dispassionate willingness to evaluate all nuclear war scenarios may
remind one of Russell's strong interest in another policy outcome
book, Kahn's On Thermonuclear War. An important question for
Quester is whether a preventative war against the USSR, with the
attendant moral as well as physical sacrifices, would have been a
temporary solution. He judges it "much less than the
once-and-for-all solution to the problem of nuclear weapons"
(p.19)--unlike Russell's intended world government solution."
--Kenneth Blackwell, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell
Studies
"Quester, professor emeritus of international relations at Maryland
and a former director of peace studies at Cornell, leaves no
hypothesis unexamined in asking why the United States did not use
its nuclear monopoly in 1945-1949 to keep it that way, either by
threat or by preventative war. . . . Quester's surprisingly
dispassionate willingness to evaluate all nuclear war scenarios may
remind one of Russell's strong interest in another policy outcome
book, Kahn's On Thermonuclear War. An important question for
Quester is whether a preventative war against the USSR, with the
attendant moral as well as physical sacrifices, would have been a
temporary solution. He judges it "much less than the
once-and-for-all solution to the problem of nuclear weapons"
(p.19)--unlike Russell's intended world government solution."
--Kenneth Blackwell, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell
Studies
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