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From the very beginning of the cold war, Western military planners have been preoccupied by a single goal in case of war: keeping columns of Soviet tanks and troops from reaching the heart of Europe. When the U.S. held a decisive nuclear edge, NATO threats to use battlefield nukes against...
The idea of such a place has caused a certain subdued muttering. The muttering grants the enormity of the Holocaust, but it suggests: Why should the U.S. Government set aside land and buildings to commemorate a tragedy that occurred on another continent, a horror in which Americans had no part...
The State Department was also eager for Reagan personally to take responsibility for selling the Administration's policies, but officials there argued that the hardline approach favored by Casey and Kirkpatrick would backfire. "The idea is to calm the opposition down," said one State Department official, "so that we can...
In addition, the British and French nuclear contribution to overall Western security is less significant than Moscow seems to think. Both countries have said that the purpose of their nuclear weaponry is to defend their own territory and ensure their own survival. They could not serve as the sole protection...
The Soviet motive for trying to include the French and British missiles in the Geneva talks is more political than military. It is an attempt to sow discord within the alliance. Says Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle: "It is a kind of public relations argument to justify the retention...