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...structure that I am proposing would enable Europeans to confront?on their own initiative and in their own context???issues that have been evaded for at least two decades: the precise definition of an adequate conventional defense; the nature of the so-called nuclear threshold?the point where there is no choice except conventional defeat or nuclear escalation; the relationship between strategy and arms control. Since nuclear weapons would presumably be used only if conventional defense failed, Europe would be responsible for setting the nuclear threshold by its own efforts; it could relieve its nuclear anxieties by the simple expedient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plan to Reshape NATO | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

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