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Excerpt from Les Colonies Franques de Syrie aux Xiime Et Xiiime Siècles
La domination franque, dans ce pays, est écrite sur le sol par des monuments militaires et religieux qui portent le double caractère de la société et du temps.
L'étude géographique et archéologique de la Syrie jus tiñe la conception politique des chefs et concorde avec les documents diplomatiques. Partout, sur son passage, le voyageur rencontre, avec une émotion extrême, la preuve muette, mais encore vivante, de l'unité de l'oeuvre.
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About the author
Stephen M. Younger is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He recently retired as a senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was in charge of nuclear weapons research and development. From 2001 to 2004, he was director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense. He lives in Las Vegas.
Summary
A former nuclear weapons designer discusses the increasing threat of weapons of mass destruction and offers ideas on how to construct the best practical world consistent with our human nature.
"I have been in the nuclear weapons business for over twenty years, and I have always been a pacifist." Stephen M. Younger looks into the heart of humankind to present a practical plan for ending mass violence, the scourge of modern times and a threat to our survival as a species. Do our genes condemn us to ever greater acts of barbarism? Do our complex societies, so necessary to modern life, include a fundamental flaw that drives us to periodic wars and genocide? Why has an enduring peace proven so elusive?
Younger understands, as few others can, our potential for violence. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction means that any nation, group, or even individual could cause unimaginable carnage. And the accelerating pace of communications and transportation mean that things can happen faster than we can think about them. Looking across our knowledge of psychology, history, politics, and technology, Younger presents a convincing argument that we can escape our spiral into global destruction. But we haven't a moment to lose.
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"In this wise and urgent book Younger distills for us what he's learned about the dangers that threaten us."
