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3 World Bull. 47 (1987)
J. Gerson (Ed.) the Deadly Connection

handle is hein.journals/wrldbul3 and id is 209 raw text is: BOOK REVIEW THE DEADLY CONNECTION, edited by Joseph Gerson, New England Regional Office of the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, New Society Pub- lishers, 1986. By Estrelita G. Gacutan and Marie Grace T. Javier* At the core of several protest actions against nuclear disarmament and military intervention all over the world lies an oft-ignored network of inextricable components comprising the deadly connection. It is indeed dishearten- ing to think that the two issues of nuclear arms build-up and intervention strategies both in industrialized and Third World nations have been treated as separate ones. It has not been realized by most organizations in the peace move- ment both in the United States and in other countries that these two form part of a single plan fo attain the greatest influence possible to control and exploit the world's re- sources (human and otherwise) in order to maintain power through a system of large-scale war. It is in the context of this existing ignorance that the well-documented book, The Deadly Connection is appre- ciated. The material is a collection of articles that shed light on the close relationship between US nuclear war policy and US intervention. While primarily addressed to peace organizations and activists in the U.S., the book is equally important to cause- oriented groups in other countries which are trapped in the veil of ignorance despite their valid and noble motives for mankind. It points out that the reality that must be * Graduate Assistants, International Studies Institute of the Philippines.

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