Source: The American Conservative
by James W Carden
“The closing of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Monday is as good a moment as any to take a moment to recall an address that was given on that occasion some six decades ago during one of the most fraught moments of the first Cold War. In September 1961, only a month and a half after the Soviets built the Berlin Wall in violation of the agreement reached at Yalta, President John F. Kennedy spoke to the UNGA regarding the what he saw as the statesman’s duty to grapple with the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons. … What is striking from the vantage point of 2024 is Kennedy’s forthrightness. This contrasts with the dishonesty with which today’s national security officials discuss what they, as a matter of course, blandly refer to as our nuclear ‘deterrent.'” (10/04/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/washingtons-nuclear-delusions/