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...little more than two years ago, Galina Orionova said good-bye to the Soviet Union and her position as a researcher at the Institute on the USA and Canada, Moscow's prestigious "think-tank" on American affairs run by chief specialist Georgi Arbatov...
...Minuteman debate, at least as expressed by official spokesmen in a series of interviews in Moscow, is a mixture of righteous indignation, countercharges and carefully reasoned assurances. "These wild scenarios by American armchair strategists breed suspicion and paranoia and serve to justify the arms race," says Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee...
...retired general on the staff of Arbatov's institute, Mikhail Milshtein, rejects the very concepts of a first strike and a limited nuclear war: "It is inconceivable to me that any government would wait to see if the incoming warheads were only aimed at silos or were part of an all-out attack. Our government could never exclude the possibility of launch on warning. Besides, the notion of a surgical strike against land-based missiles is a fantasy. One of the more popular scenarios in the U.S. stipulates that to knock out Minuteman, we would have...
...Arbatov tries to turn the tables on the U.S. in the debate about vulnerability: "If we're going to talk about that whole issue, then you should recognize our problem as well. We're under a greater threat because a larger part of our strategic arsenal is land-based than yours...
...based on fear and ignorance and the most retrograde attitudes, but it's not yet a thought-out system for dealing with the real world. I cling to the hope that the contradictions between the initial philosophy and the still inchoate policy will be resolved positively." Arbatov agrees. He believes the current mood in the U.S. is a backlash against a decade of "disappointment and difficulty" that included Viet Nam, Watergate and the "humiliation" of the hostage crisis. "But I haven't lost all hope," he says. "These people in Washington may yet discover they must build...