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Shaping American Foreign Policy: New Realities and New Ways of Thinking

By George P. Schultz
Spring 1985
Article Summary and Author Biography

Albert Einstein once observed that the advent of nuclear weapons had changed everything except our modes of thinking. If even so dramatic a development as the nuclear revolution has taken a long time to be fully understood, how much longer has it usually taken to understand the implications of the more subtle, intangible historical changes taking place around us.

George P. Shultz is Secretary of State.

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