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...time when the freeze movement is growing rapidly, Graham himself came out on the side of the activists, speaking at Harvard on the topic of peace in an age of nuclear weapons build-up. The religious community at Harvard was ready for Graham, and undergraduates from Christian fellowships on campus became involved in Graham's mission, serving as counselors to people attending Graham's sermon at the Memorial Church...
Nacht: No, I think the argument is that a declaration of no-first use would stimulate the build-up of conventional forces by the Europeans. They don't advocate waiting 10 years until the forces are in place before making this declaration....Anyway, I think a third possibility is a decline of American credibility of unclear guarantees toward Europe and a movement toward talking to and thinking with and listening to the Soviet Union in a way that is highly undesirable for American interests. And finally, there's another possibility, and that's a sort of waning dependence shift...
Sherwin: Let me go back to a point that was brought up a little bit earlier by Professor Nye about deterrence because this is really at the heart of things...That is the alleged reason we have nuclear weapons and we continue the build-up. We live in a system that believes that deterrence is what prevents war, and war will be nuclear, so deterrence prevents nuclear war. And I think one of the problems that has emerged...that, with respect to our nuclear weapons, we really go beyond deterrence. I think that it is true that we have...
Crimson: What is your evaluation of Reagan's whole nuclear build-up plan in terms of arms themselves, and along with that, does the term "nuclear superiority" in your mind have any meaning anymore...
...question of the Regan force build-up. I think you have to approach that by asking what is it that you want from your nuclear weapons. And clearly you want them to provide deterrence, but you want more from them than that. You want them to be able to support the umbrella which you extend over allies such as Europe and Japan, and this is called extended deterrence. And you do want them occasionally to bolster your diplomacy. And I think that's becoming more and more difficult in a world of party....I'd want to see nuclear forces...