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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: unclewest who wrote (20622)3/5/2002 10:47:00 AM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I know people who feel as you do, uw, and Richard Betts, who wrote about intelligence reform for the last issue of FA and who is one of the most prominent security studies figures in the field, has long felt that civil defense issues have been unjustly slighted.

Still, I'm not entirely convinced, for two reasons. First, panic isn't necessarily easy to avoid, and something like this might well have led to it--with significant negative consequences that leaders legitimately took into account. Second, my sense is that many younger folk (<45, say) find the whole "duck and cover" approach of the '50s so risible that they have a hard time taking civil defense seriously. I'm not sure what the answer to that is...maybe your book will help.

tb@boom.com
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