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...conventional defenses were stronger, they would constitute a more credible deterrent to Soviet aggression, thereby reducing U.S. reli ance on a nuclear last resort. A case can be made that the politically difficult decision of reinstituting the draft would do more to strengthen American defense posture?and hence to diminish the danger of war?than the MX supermissile and the B-l bomber programs combined...
...preserving a "balance of terror." Nonetheless, the nightmare of actual war receded somewhat into the subconscious of civilization. Partly because of the scare that Kennedy and Khrushchev had given the world over Cuba, the U.S. and the Soviet Union buckled down to the serious pursuit of agreements that would diminish the chances of nuclear war. With only modest successes and numerous stalls and setbacks, that effort continued in earnest until late in the Carter Administration, when it became clear that the Senate would reject the SALT 11 treaty that Carter and Brezhnev had signed...
Certainly we would not want the military to water down its efforts for defense, nor would we want the diplomats to diminish their attempts to make this a safer world to live in. The different viewpoints and responsibilities of these two major Cabinet departments make conflict inevitable...
...significant but unspecified amount of economic aid to help "fill the gaps" created by Western sanctions and Poland's crippling indebtedness to the West. But the price will be high: strict reintegration into the Soviet bloc's tightly coordinated economic system. Trade with the West will diminish as Polish factories increase their dependence on Soviet raw materials and equipment. Says a Western diplomat in Warsaw: "Economically, Poland is on the verge of becoming the Soviet Union's 16th republic...
...arms race's psychological impact suggest, the very existence of nuclear weapons and the prospects of their use inflicts damage--with untold implications for the future--on the minds and spirits of children. Moreover, the public's emotional respones to the incessant spiral or arms--denial and desensitization--greatly diminish a democratic society's ability to implement "rational alternatives." We are, says Dr. Chorover, "learning helplessness" in the face of a problem utterly beyond individual control. Moreover, he argues, to draw any shocked or outraged response from an increasingly desensitized public requires "more and more chilling demonstrations" of the horror...