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...Minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet officials have hinted at flexibility about permitting some sort of "cooperative measures," perhaps including very limited on-site inspection, in future agreements. But it is virtually inconceivable that the Kremlin would grant the U.S. a carte blanche search warrant to inspect not just launch sites but perhaps storage areas and even production facilities...
...achieve agreements that will not only safeguard the nuclear peace, but accommodate the more farfetched hypothetical possibilities of prolonged nuclear war as well. The U.S. can protect itself from even worst-case contingencies by the far more negotiable and verifiable measures banning the storage of refire missiles at operational launch sites and banning the development of techniques that would allow the Soviets to reconstitute their forces in a war. Such measures were already agreed to in SALT II and could be strengthened...
...past 30 years, the doctrine of deterrence has lain at the heart of America's--and the world's--strategic thinking. This doctrine holds that should any nation launch a nuclear attack, enough of its victim's missiles would survive to destroy the aggressor. Anything that threatens to neutralize or eliminate one side's nuclear forces endangers this hair-trigger balance...
...years ago the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to severely restrict anti-ballistic missiles--anti- missiles, in essence--because it was feared that one power confident of its defensive forces might launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the other. Thus, when President Reagan revive the anti-missiles idea, this time in satellite form, it provoked immediate outcry from those who defend deterrence. In this light, it is easy to understand the alarm felt in American defense circles when it appeared that the Soviet Union had achieved first-strike capability--the ability to attack and wipe...
Exploring further the notion that Europe is the most probable arena of nuclear disaster, we encounter a second myth: that the U. S. can be trusted by the rest of the world not to engage in nuclear blackmail or launch as aggressive "first strike" on another country. Just weeks ago, the President told a Revelry Hills audience that "When the United States was the only country in the world possessing these awesome weapon we did not blackmail others with threats to use them...