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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...
...necessity for it: "We need to be in a situation where we are not subject to nuclear blackmail, where no matter how other conflicts come out we can at least be safe at home, without allies. I don't believe that the United States can maintain its happy position in the world-I don't even think we can survive-without high technology...
...added to the growing national debate on the subject when it was released last October. The panel, led by Bishop John Baker of Salisbury, called upon the government to abandon its nuclear arms. Reason: nuclear war is so potentially disastrous that disarmament is worth even the risk of "blackmail and defeat" by an enemy...
...enticements for such traitorous acts today are various. In a permissive age, sexual entrapment is not as effective as it used to be, but it can still play a role in KGB blackmail schemes. In the late 1970s, a randy West German with political ambitions who had made several sexual conquests at the Leipzig Trade Fair soon learned that he was the unwitting star of a movie directed by the KGB's sister operation in East Germany, the MfS. If he did not show equal enthusiasm about climbing into bed with the secret police, agents threatened, they would turn over...
...best way to achieve the peace and security that mankind desires." The silver-haired veteran U.S. negotiator also denounced "recent Soviet propaganda activities" that sought to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European partners. Said Nitze: "The NATO nations cannot be held hostage to nuclear blackmail at the hands of the Soviet Union...