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...Mandelbaum: I would say perhaps a couple of things about the European issue and extended deterrence. I myself don't feel that a no-first use pledge would make much difference as long as there are 7000 or I guess now 6000 American nuclear weapons in Europe. I don't think the Soviet Union would act on the assumption that the United States would not use these weapons even if the American president said we wouldn't. So I think they have and will continue to have a deterrent effect by their very presence....One of the things that Marty...
...Mandelbaum: If one wishes to think of nuclear weapons as a problem, then it seems the solution is a more radical transformation of international politics than anything that we know about or have reason to expect will occur in our lifetimes. But of course even if we are stuck with the task of managing nuclear weapons, even if we accept that they will always be with...
Harvard University's Michael Mandelbaum, author of a two-volume study on how nuclear weapons have transformed international politics, calls ending a war "the fundamental uncertainty: in order to get out of a nuclear war we would have to negotiate. In order to negotiate successfully, the national governments involved would probably have to be intact, and would have to have some means of communicating among themselves and with the other side. But one of the issues that have been debated recently is whether in fact the American national Government could survive and whether its command and control system could survive...
...Mandelbaum said he was unsure of his plans, adding that he has received several teaching offers, Odell was not a available for comment...
...Mandelbaum is definitely leaving because he has been at Harvard the maximum eight years allowed for junior faculty members, Montgomery said...