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...Mandelbaum: Structural changes I take to mean the disappearance of sovereignty, the creation of some sort of world government....Changes of management would involve no-first use proposals. It would involve [a] fool-proof, non-proliferation. It might involve drastic reductions in the arsenals of the two sides. It would involve...a radical improvement in U.S. Soviet relations...
...Mandelbaum: Well this is a real difference between us, and I think that it's reflected in our...relative optimism and pessimism about improving management techniques. My argument is a kind of inevitablist argument, that it was not at all likely that things would turn out much differently than they...
...Mandelbaum: That question evokes not a reasoned estimate of the future but one's deepest sense of what the world is like....The chances of the United States or the Soviet Union exploding a nuclear weapon in anger against the other is small. On the other hand, if I didn't believe that. I don't think that I would be able to write about these issues in a more or less academic manner. So perhaps all I'm telling you is what my outlook on life...
...proliferation of scholarship and analysis devoted to complexities and dilemmas. The Crimson recently talked to four Harvard experts about the issues surrounding the arms race, both how it is now and where it is likely to go from here. Participating in the two hour discussion were: Michael I. Mandelbaum '69, associate professor of Government and author of The Nuclear Question and The Nuclear Revolution. Michael I. Nacht, associate professor of Government and author of The Nuclear Question and The Nuclear Revolution: Michael L. Nacht associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School, currently finishing a book on strategic nuclear...
...Mandelbaum: I agree in part with that I think there is a kind of underlying reservoir of anxiety, if you will, or the collective pvsche of the American public, about nuclear weapons....This anxiety stays beneath the surface because most people would prefer not to confront the reality of our nuclear situation. But every so often something happens that compels people to recognize the peril in which we all live...