Word: nye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nye: What's interesting, to go back to the original question, is the extent to which the Administration has changed from its initial position. After all, this Administration came in saying that we shouldn't have arms control until we've rebuilt our military strength. And any arms control would be tightly linked to Soviet behavior elsewhere in places such as Afghanistan and Poland. And, lo and behold, both of these things seems to have dropped by the wayside...
...Nye: If they had gone forward with the massive cuts in throw-weight, which essentially required Soviet cuts rather than American cuts....I think that would have been clearly not negotiable...
Sherwin: Let me go back to a point that was brought up a little bit earlier by Professor Nye about deterrence because this is really at the heart of things...That is the alleged reason we have nuclear weapons and we continue the build-up. We live in a system that believes that deterrence is what prevents war, and war will be nuclear, so deterrence prevents nuclear war. And I think one of the problems that has emerged...that, with respect to our nuclear weapons, we really go beyond deterrence. I think that it is true that we have...
...Nye: Well, on the point of superiority, I think the quest for superiority is futile, because I don't think either side is going to allow the other to achieve it. And the reason is that if one side believes the other has superiority, it may be more cowed in the possibility of a diplomatic confrontation....In that sense I think there is a concern that you don't have a sense of superiority on which there is a danger of miscalculation....So I think both sides are going to, in fact prevent that from becoming as imbalanced...
Joseph S. Nye Jr., a K-School professor of Government, for example, co-authored a major study on nuclear power which the Carter Administration quickly integrated into its national policy...