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...with great fanfare, but when the going gets rough, there's a request for an extension." Republican Charles Percy asked whether Lance's pronouncements on bank prime rates involved the "appearance of possible conflict of interest" and attempted to bore in further. But Georgia's Sam Nunn interjected: "How far can you extend this logic? There's no place in the world where he can put his money where it won't be affected by his decisions...
...Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn sees it, Hatfield's argument requires the West to practice "self-deterrence." Said Nunn: "I remind my colleagues that the purpose of deterrence is to deter Soviet aggression, not to deter ourselves from responding to that aggression...
...deep within the Soviet Union if there is a nuclear war? These questions are especially important because, according to present strategy, close to 60% of the U.S. nuclear megatonnage will be carried by manned bombers, the rest by missiles based on land and aboard submarines. Concedes Democratic Senator Sam Nunn, a B-l backer: "Considerable logic can be mustered for either side of the argument...
Pentagon supporters in the Congress wasted little time in launching a determined and vehement assault on the Warnke nomination, led by Senate hawks like Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) of the Armed Services Committee. Although the Pentagon camp has often distorted Warnke's views (as in the anonymous memorandum circulated earlier this month in the Senate), there are two clear positions at the heart of the disagreement. First, Warnke has questioned the utility of numerical military superiority in the nuclear age. While conceding that deterrence requires a perceivable ability to retaliate effectively in response...
...number of congressional hawks, the nomination was anything but ideal. They fear that Warnke is too soft to deal with the Soviets. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, for example, said he was concerned "about what I have seen and heard of Mr. Warnke's position," while Democratic Senator Sam Nunn complained that Warnke has opposed many of those U.S. weapons systems (e.g., MIRVed missiles and the nuclear-armed Trident submarine) that have given the Soviets the incentive to come to the negotiating table...