Word: nacht
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...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 questions for the Brookings Institute in Washington. Joseph S. Nye Jr., professor of Government who had dealt...
...Nacht: There's no denying that the Reagan Administration has contributed to this anti-nuclear sentiment in the United States and in Europe, and perhaps it is the primary contributor. But I don't think they are, the Administration, is the only contributor. I would say that there are two other important considerations. One is with a lot of attention in the media to SALT and now START, and to its difficulties, more Americans are at least crudely aware of the fact that the arms competition between the Soviet Union and the United States is not abating in any fashion...
...Nacht: I would say that the [Reagan] arms control initiative is as much a political initiative for domestic purposes as it is anything else. I think that perhaps the President now shares Professor Nye's view that it is the Reagan Administration that is the father of the nuclear freeze movement, and they don't wish to continue to nurture that child. They would like to dismiss it, and one way to do that is to move, as many students of the presidency have often argued, to a somewhat more centrist position to appear more accommodating, to tone down...
...Nacht: I remember some of the Reagan Administration officials said that the European proposal for the intermediate nuclear force talks was not an opening negotiating position, it was the only negotiating position....Now there was none of that rhetoric in public associated with the START proposal, and even when Mr. Brezhnev came back with quite a lot of criticism about the proposal and some different ideas, the Administration interpreted it very positively and said, well, this shows Mr. Brezhnev wants to speak....There are many problems with the opening position, but, I mean, it does clearly seem...
...Nacht: There are several issues on the table here that I would like to respond to. The first on the question of nuclear superiority. It may be the case that the quest for nuclear superiority by either the Soviet Union or the United States is futile. But I think it will be pursued with all due vigor by both sides...