{"id":51113,"date":"2020-02-12T09:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51113"},"modified":"2020-02-12T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:37:42","slug":"tomgram-michael-klare-war-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51113","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Michael Klare, War in the Arctic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tomgram: Michael Klare, War in the Arctic?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When I first met Michael Klare in the late Neolithic age (it was actually the early 1970s), he was already researching the U.S. military in a way no one else was doing. His first book on the subject, War Without End: American Planning for the Next Vietnams,<\/em> had just been published. The title remains eerily apt, given Washington\u2019s twenty-first-century \u201cforever wars.\u201d Almost 50 years later, he\u2019s still ahead of the curve and his newest book on that military, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon\u2019s Perspective on Climate Change<\/em><\/a>, has only recently come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he hasn\u2019t stopped yet, as you\u2019ll see in today\u2019s piece on a new nuclear flashpoint for the U.S. and Russia: the melting Arctic. It\u2019s the sort of thing that, in another world, would be headline news. Still, his latest piece saddens me for personal reasons. When Klare and I first met, the Cold War with the other superpower of that moment, the Soviet Union, was still in high gear; the Vietnam War had yet to end; and the Cuban Missile Crisis<\/a> (the one time in my life when I truly felt like \u201cducking<\/a> and covering<\/a>\u201d) was only a decade past. In other words, the possibility of a global conflagration that might end life as we know it on this planet still seemed all too possible. As late as the early 1980s, in the age of Ronald Reagan, I would find myself on the streets<\/a> of New York City with my family, marching in the company<\/a> of Hibakusha<\/em> — survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing — and perhaps a million other protestors, part of a global antinuclear movement calling for disarmament and protesting the possibility of an annihilating war. That seemed a moment of fear but also of hope when it came to the nuclear issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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