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    Robert C. Koehler: The ‘parallel universe’ of peace

    by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency Oct 29, 2020 4 minutes

    Here’s a piece of paradoxical news that puts even the looming U.S. presidential election in perspective: Nuclear weapons are now (or soon will be) . . . good Lord, illegal.

    Armageddon is against the law!

    Well, sort of. And the Trump administration doesn’t agree. Indeed, no nuke-armed nation has, as far as I can tell, anything but contempt for this infringement on its right to blow up the world (only if necessary, of course). War and peace, it seems, exist in parallel universes.

    In the pro-war universe, as explained with succinct clarity by Nuclear Ground Zero in a three-minute , it takes five minutes for

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