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...military planners and political leaders in the Kremlin will never proceed on that assumption, nor can they. They want to feel confident that deterrence works the other way and that they could retaliate effectively against an American attack on them. There is no room in the concept of mutual deterrence for one side to claim, as Reagan did, a monopoly on virtue and peaceful intentions. Sure enough, Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, launched a rhetorical counterstrike at Reagan, accusing him of turning "Washington into a dangerous hotbed of thermonuclear confrontation." Nor is there any way to exorcise from deterrence what...
Fairness compels me to point out that the decision to proceed with MIRVs was taken by President Johnson and was made irrevocable in the Nixon Administration. We proceeded because in the climate of the Viet Nam period we were reluctant to give up the one strategic offensive program that was funded with which to counter the rapid Soviet missile force buildup; because we doubted that the Soviets could achieve accuracies to threaten our missile force in the foreseeable future; and because the Soviets ignored our hints to open the subject of a MIRV ban in the SALT talks. Whatever...
Once we decided on such an approach, we could proceed with it either as part of an arms control agreement or unilaterally as part of our defense policy. For example, we could propose to reduce and transform the strategic arsenals of both sides to a low number of single-warhead missiles over a ten-year period. The totals should be set at the lowest number that could be monitored; that is, at a level where a violation significant enough to overturn it could not be hidden. The permitted number of missiles may be as low as 500; at any rate...
...Soviets refused such a scheme, we would proceed unilaterally toward our goal. The final size of a single-warhead force would depend on the number of warheads in the Soviet force and on what we need to assure our invulnerability...
Panelists debated whether tribes should proceed with industrial development or work to increase activity in more traditional sectors such as fishing and hunting...