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President Kennedy signs the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 7 October 1963

"On Iran's Nuclear Program, Obama Should Take a Cue From JFK and 'Go First'"  Jun 10, 2013

Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor <<   Author: Matthew Bunn, Professor of Practice; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Managing the Atom; Science, Technology, and Public Policy

This is an excerpt from the op-ed that appeared today on the Christian Science Monitor website. Visit here for the full article.

Fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address at American University whose message echoes down the decades to the challenges America faces today – including the challenge of Iran.

Only months after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the edge of nuclear war, Kennedy chose to speak of peace. This, as he faced a nuclear-armed Soviet Union that had a hateful ideology and was seemingly bent on world domination. The American president challenged those who saw peace as “impossible” or “unreal,” calling this “a dangerous, defeatist belief.” He spoke of a “practical” peace, based “on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements that are in the interest of all concerned.”

Strikingly, while upholding American values, he recognized that the United States, too, bore some responsibility for the cold war, and urged Americans “not to fall into the same trap as the Soviets, not to see only a distorted and desperate view of the other side.” He argued that “even the most hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and keep” treaty obligations that serve their own interests.

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/23148/on_irans_nuclear_program_obama_should_take_a_cue_from_jfk_and_go_first.html

Donald P. Wilson, Artist

Donald P. Wilson, Artist

[sidebar:  George W. Bush "Jr" was sold to the world via the NEWS that war was and is good for America.  Naturally this unnatural act came from the mouth of a protoplasm that wasn't other than a complete loser his whole life.]

We won't let Iran go nuclear, warns Cheney

Image 1 of 2 US vice-president Dick Cheney speaking yesterday: ‘We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon’ 

By Alec Russell in Washington and Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor, 08 Mar 2006

New York Times NYT: OPINION, How Bush Let Iran GO Nuclear <<