May 22—We are seeing the escalation of both the danger of all-out nuclear war over Ukraine, and of initiatives towards a resolution of the conflict. The situation makes it imperative to move the U.S. towards the wisdom and morality clearly stated 60 years ago this June, by President John F. Kennedy. He said, speaking just months after the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, “Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces….”
