![]() ![]() Over the past 50 years, China has evolved to become a world power. In 1971, on a secret mission, Kissinger set the stage for President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China the following year. Today, Kissinger said, "One of the positive outcomes of the policy that was in fact pursued by every American administration of both parties was that nuclear weapons have not been used for 75 years, nor were they used by any adversary. "And this is too risky, and I think too expensive." ![]() ![]() policy) made absolutely no sense: "It means that against almost any form of attack we base our policy on a threat that will involve the destruction of all mankind," Kissinger said then. ![]() Back in July of 1958, a young Mike Wallace asked an even younger Harvard professor to explain why the threat of massive nuclear retaliation (which was then U.S. Kissinger has been at the center of things for longer than most Americans have been alive. There are dangers in exhaustion, and a limited capacity to work." "It takes a certain capacity, physically," he said. You might think that, on the cusp of turning 100 years old, Kissinger is sympathetic to an 80-year-old or a 76-year-old running for president. ![]()
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