Rushing to Armageddon: The Shocking Truth about Canada, Missile Defence, and Star Wars.Rushing to Armageddon: The Shocking Truth about Canada, Missile Defence, and Star Wars, by Mel Hurtig, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2004, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-7710-4162-4, 229 pp., paperback, $19.99. In Rushing to Armageddon, readers will learn about the Pentagon's plans to weaponize Verb 1. weaponize - make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon; "Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?" alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth space; about the impetus for a new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-up; about the destruction of long-standing arms control agreements; and about the increasing danger of a nuclear catastrophe. In the Preface, Mel Hurtig makes his motives for writing the book clear: I have written this book because I fear that aggressive American militarism and the undeniable US. plans for the weaponization of space are rapidly leading the world towards nuclear carnage. Many who read the book will already know why I am now so apprehensive and will share that apprehension, but most will likely be unfamiliar with much of what they will encounter on the pages that follow. Among the topics covered are the undisclosed intentions of the American government for this missile "defence" system; the reasons both Paul Martin's government and Stephen Harper's Conservatives have to join in the US ballistic missile defence (BMD BMD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Bermudian Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) program; the evidence in many official US documents that reveals plans to "dominate space" and place lasers and nuclear weapons in space; the power of today's nuclear weapons; and the effects on Canada if the Canadian government participates in BMD. Retired Senator Douglas Roche, O.C., says of this book: "A powerful and devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. critique of the planned U.S. missile defence system Noun 1. missile defence system - naval weaponry providing a defense system missile defense system naval weaponry - weaponry for warships and Canada's possible participation in it, and also of the duplicity DUPLICITY, pleading. Duplicity of pleading consists in multiplicity of distinct matter to one and the same thing, whereunto several answers are required. Duplicity may occur in one and the same pleading. of governments, including our own, in their statements on the issue.... Mel's book is shocking--and factual." Rushing to Armageddon is dedicated to Mary-Wynne Ashford, Rosalie Bertell, Stephen Lewis, John Polanyi, Ernie Regehr, and Douglas Roche, "and the many other wonderful Canadians who have worked so long and so hard in the cause of peace and disarmament." Founder and past-chairman of the Council of Canadians and former chairman of the Committee for an Independent Canada, Mel Hurtig is an officer of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canada's highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Order's Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means "(those) desiring a better country" (Hebrews 11:16). . |
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