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...event, the Republican-controlled Senate is almost certain to defeat its version of the resolution early this summer. Within a few weeks, however, a vote is due there on Kenneth Adelman's nomination to be Reagan's new director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Freeze advocates are trying to turn that into a test vote on arms control. "[Defeating] Adelman," says Massachusetts Democrat Paul Tsongas, "will be the Senate's equivalent of a freeze...
...Even if Adelman is telling the truth, lack of experience in the arms control field should rule him out for the job. While Adelman has served as deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, he has no field experience in arms negotiations. And during the confirmation hearings, it seemed he had no opinions on the best ways to limit nuclear weapons. Asked, for example, what he thought of the "no-first use" proposal put forth most recently by George Kennan. McGeorge Bundy and Robert McNamara. Adelman replied that he hadn't "thought about it enough" to answer...
...views that Adelman did express were often so extreme that they raised questions about his potential effectiveness as a negotiator. He said that he would not seek the ratification of the underground nuclear test ban treaty and the treaty on the peaceful uses of nuclear explosions, claiming they are unverifiable. Adelman also expressed skepticism about past arms accords like SALT...
...Adelman's position on the treaties is symbolic of the Reagan Administration's "all or nothing" approach to arms control. Like the Administration. Adelman wants deep cuts in nuclear weapons and nothing less. Such a negotiating strategy--typified by an unwillingness to compromise on the zero-option proposal for Europe--is unrealistic and can only lead to stalemate. An arms control chief who is not flexible can hardly be called competent...
...potential effects of a growing peace movement, are depending on the United States to show some commitment to arms reductions. And the old arguments about the tragic waste of resources and the dangers of proliferation, not to mention the threat of an accidental detonation, remain true. The nomination of Adelman is a big step in the wrong direction...