Word: milshtein
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...retired general on the staff of Arbatov's institute, Mikhail Milshtein, rejects the very concepts of a first strike and a limited nuclear war: "It is inconceivable to me that any government would wait to see if the incoming warheads were only aimed at silos or were part of an all-out attack. Our government could never exclude the possibility of launch on warning. Besides, the notion of a surgical strike against land-based missiles is a fantasy. One of the more popular scenarios in the U.S. stipulates that to knock out Minuteman, we would have...
Generals McCarthy and Rowny are less likely to be reassured by Generals Milshtein and Kozlov these days because the Soviets have skewed the arithmetic of deterrence by dint of the sheer, simple and very large numbers on their side. In so doing, the U.S.S.R. has left the U.S. with no choice but to balance the strategic equation by making additions to its own arsenal. -By Strobe Talbott
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