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Describing himself as once apolitical, Kaku started asking himself questions for the first time, and after finishing at Fort Benning and spending some time in machine-gun training at Fort Lewis, Washington, he joined "Science for the People" at University of California at Berkeley...
...Kaku has spent the last five years acting on his grudge against the Pentagon by compiling a book of declassified war plans. To Win a Nuclear War: The Secret Plans of the Pentagon, published by Boston's South End Press, reached bookstores late last month...
...book, Kaku examines U.S. first-strike war plans almost implemented between 1945 and the mid. 60s. The three closest calls, Kaku says, occurred during the Berlin Crisis in 1948, when President Truman prepared to drop 50 atomic bombs on the Soviet Union; during the Korean Conflict in 1954 when Eisenhower almost launched 1000 atomic bombs on targets in the Soviet Union, Korea and Vietnam; and in 1961 after the construction of the Berlin Wall when Kennedy considered firing more than 4000 bombs on the Soviet Union...
None of the three presidents carried out their plans, mainly, Kaku says, because America had no shield. Star Wars, according to him, could make such attacks feasible in the future...
...quiet, self-described "wonk" (Kaku says that's "know" spelled backwards) while at Harvard, Kaku played trumpet in the Harvard Band and enrolled in two graduate courses as a sophomore. By his junior year, he had run out of courses to take...