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...itself out?and burning the whole world up. The Pentagon's Ikle, who made his reputation as a strategist partly on the basis of a book published eleven years ago titled Every War Must End, now admits, "War can be very difficult to stop. There is great stress on command and communication, on the structure of government, and destruction takes place very fast. This is an added deterrent to nuclear...
...national governments involved would probably have to be intact, and would have to have some means of communicating among themselves and with the other side. But one of the issues that have been debated recently is whether in fact the American national Government could survive and whether its command and control system could survive. These doubts are relevant for the Soviet Union well. The conclusion to which comes is that the best way to prevent a holocaust is to prevent any kind of nuclear war in the first place...
General David Jones, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fears that the Soviets might use a single multimegaton airburst over the U.S. to strike the entire nation?and its defense nerve centers?deaf, dumb and blind. Insulating the American command-and-control network against EMP, to preclude the possibility that the U.S. might be unable to fire a single shot, is one of the many
...missile for missile, megaton for megaton, but it is necessary that the U.S. have the recognized capability to make the Soviets pay an unacceptably high price for aggression. Deterrence is more than just a matter of quantity and quality of weapons; it is also a matter of plans, procedures, command structure and vigorous, ongoing testing programs that will make the arms that have been deployed seem capable of being employed...
...gulf states headed by Saudi Arabia has decided to contribute more than $20 billion in interest-free loans and billions more in grants to Iraq. The gulf states are also mapping a regional defense plan. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has decided to create a joint armed forces command and a military strike force designed to intervene if any of the member states is threatened. So far, however, only Jordan has actively participated in the Iran-Iraq war. A 2,000-man Jordanian force has been formed to fight on the Iraqi side, and Jordan's King Hussein...