Who are the post-Hiroshima dreamers who dared to imagine a world beyond war? John Lennon? Perhaps. But what about someone far removed from the 1960s counterculture? Someone like President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1953, early in his presidency, Eisenhower warned: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed … The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of
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