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Paul A. Olson

Paul A. Olson serves on the Nebraskans for Peace Anti-War Committee, and is Kate Foster Professor of English emeritus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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We Refuse To Be Targets in This Nuclear World
When Barack Obama was elected president, one of his stated hopes was the global elimination of nuclear weapons. Now that he is about to conclude his presidency, his hope (expressed in his visit to Hiroshima) is still that such weapons might be eliminated. But serious steps toward the elimination of...
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