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Whirl Is King All Around Us: The world may be closer to nuclear war than it was at any time in the Cold War--even closer than during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.(Brief Article)

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From: Newsweek
Date: 20020610
Author:Will, George F.

Byline: George F. Will

'Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus.'

--Aristophanes

Whirl is indeed. Has there been a moment since the end of the world convulsion of 1939 to 1945 when so much was in motion? Perhaps the autumn of 1956, when the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt coincided with the Anglo-French attempt to undo Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal. That attempt was doomed by American opposition, which made brutally clear that Europe's supremacy had vanished.

Since then, Europe's nations--more precisely, their elites--have been trying to turn ...

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Whirl Is King All Around Us: The world may be closer to nuclear war than it was at any time in the Cold War--even closer than during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.(Brief Article)

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